VacationSelector

Prague or San Sebastian?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

San Sebastian
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PragueSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 55 points.55
PragueSan Sebastian
Score055
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km710
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 20 points.20
PragueSan Sebastian
Score7555
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,866472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2926
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 33 points.33
PragueSan Sebastian
Score7239
Museums within 10 km13817
Museums within 2 km of centre1007
Share of museums within 2 km %7241
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Prague leads by 37 points.37
PragueSan Sebastian
Score7740
Drinking venues within 4 km2,248388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6587
Nightclubs within 4 km12312
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 11 points.11
PragueSan Sebastian
Score4556
Protected land share 50 km %1211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km183 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 45 points.45
PragueSan Sebastian
Score7530
Tourist attractions within 2 km545
Park area within 2 km183 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 22 points.22
PragueSan Sebastian
Score7654
Notable places within 2 km31089
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 4 points.4
PragueSan Sebastian
Score7571
Price level global55.260.8
Daily budget€107€122
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 3 points.3
PragueSan Sebastian
Score6158
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm92 mm to 203 mm
Dry months70
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Prague
No coastline within reach
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueSan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 50 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasurePragueSan Sebastian
Official languageCzechSpanish
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation235 m6 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueSan Sebastian
City population1,397,880189,866
People per km²2,8173,118
Museums within 10 km8814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8945
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.