VacationSelector

San Sebastian or Singapore?

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

Your match

San Sebastian
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

San SebastianSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 45 points.45
San SebastianSingapore
Score55100
Swim season months212
Beaches 10 km1042
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 32 points.32
San SebastianSingapore
Score5587
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4724,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Singapore leads by 11 points.11
San SebastianSingapore
Score3950
Museums within 10 km1757
Museums within 2 km of centre726
Share of museums within 2 km %4146
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 34 points.34
San SebastianSingapore
Score4074
Drinking venues within 4 km3881,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3381,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8771
Nightclubs within 4 km1277
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 22 points.22
San SebastianSingapore
Score5634
Protected land share 50 km %111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5253
Park area within 2 km70 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 38 points.38
San SebastianSingapore
Score3068
Tourist attractions within 2 km528
Park area within 2 km70 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 12 points.12
San SebastianSingapore
Score5466
Notable places within 2 km89172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 1 points.1
San SebastianSingapore
Score7170
Price level global60.862
Daily budget€122—
Year-round weather. Singapore leads by 4 points.4
San SebastianSingapore
Score5862
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 22.9 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall92 mm to 203 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months00
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
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan SebastianSingapore
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 75 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€79-101
BIO · 75 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 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

MeasureSan SebastianSingapore
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation6 m21 m
Main airportSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan SebastianSingapore
City population189,8665,866,139
People per km²3,1188,158
Museums within 10 km1440
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre45107
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.