VacationSelector

San Sebastian or Stockholm?

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.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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 SebastianStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 5 points.5
San SebastianStockholm
Score5560
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km1073
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 21 points.21
San SebastianStockholm
Score5576
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4721,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2636
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 30 points.30
San SebastianStockholm
Score3969
Museums within 10 km1774
Museums within 2 km of centre747
Share of museums within 2 km %4164
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 24 points.24
San SebastianStockholm
Score4064
Drinking venues within 4 km3881,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre338689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8763
Nightclubs within 4 km12106
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 15 points.15
San SebastianStockholm
Score5641
Protected land share 50 km %117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5277
Park area within 2 km70 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 27 points.27
San SebastianStockholm
Score3057
Tourist attractions within 2 km523
Park area within 2 km70 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 25 points.25
San SebastianStockholm
Score5479
Notable places within 2 km89357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 14 points.14
San SebastianStockholm
Score7157
Price level global60.880.3
Daily budget€122€169
Year-round weather. San Sebastian leads by 5 points.5
San SebastianStockholm
Score5853
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 22.9 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall92 mm to 203 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months05
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan SebastianStockholm
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
3 h 35 m
€193
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 40 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 75 km
3 h 50 m
€121-161
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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 SebastianStockholm
Official languageSpanishSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m22 m
Main airportSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan SebastianStockholm
City population189,866984,748
People per km²3,1185,260
Museums within 10 km14266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre4581
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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.