VacationSelector

San Sebastian or Strasbourg?

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

Your match

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on places to eat 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 SebastianStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 55 points.55
San SebastianStrasbourg
Score550
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km109
Coast distance0 km398 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 12 points.12
San SebastianStrasbourg
Score5567
Restaurants within 2 km of centre472780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2636
Museums & heritage. Strasbourg leads by 2 points.2
San SebastianStrasbourg
Score3941
Museums within 10 km1723
Museums within 2 km of centre714
Share of museums within 2 km %4161
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 4 points.4
San SebastianStrasbourg
Score4036
Drinking venues within 4 km388305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre338264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8787
Nightclubs within 4 km1217
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 2 points.2
San SebastianStrasbourg
Score5654
Protected land share 50 km %1137
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km70 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Strasbourg leads by 8 points.8
San SebastianStrasbourg
Score3038
Tourist attractions within 2 km59
Park area within 2 km70 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 4 points.4
San SebastianStrasbourg
Score5458
Notable places within 2 km89109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 9 points.9
San SebastianStrasbourg
Score7162
Price level global60.873.7
Daily budget€122€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 5 points.5
San SebastianStrasbourg
Score5863
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 22.9 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall92 mm to 203 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months03
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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan SebastianStrasbourg
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 75 km
2 h 15 m
€136-156
FKB · 33 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
1 h 15 m
€213-254
STR · 109 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
55 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BSL · 110 km
NiceNCE
1 h 30 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
1 h 20 m
€81-198
SXB · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BSL · 110 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 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 SebastianStrasbourg
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m132 m
Main airportSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan SebastianStrasbourg
City population189,866293,771
People per km²3,1183,752
Museums within 10 km1421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre4587
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. 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.