VacationSelector

San Sebastian or Tallinn?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
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 SebastianTallinn
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 1 points.1
San SebastianTallinn
Score5554
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km1018
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 7 points.7
San SebastianTallinn
Score5562
Restaurants within 2 km of centre472481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2639
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 23 points.23
San SebastianTallinn
Score3962
Museums within 10 km1771
Museums within 2 km of centre757
Share of museums within 2 km %4180
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 6 points.6
San SebastianTallinn
Score4046
Drinking venues within 4 km388462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre338370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8780
Nightclubs within 4 km1243
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 25 points.25
San SebastianTallinn
Score5631
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5253
Park area within 2 km70 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 21 points.21
San SebastianTallinn
Score3051
Tourist attractions within 2 km520
Park area within 2 km70 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 8 points.8
San SebastianTallinn
Score5462
Notable places within 2 km89135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 1 points.1
San SebastianTallinn
Score7170
Price level global60.862.4
Daily budget€122€143
Year-round weather. San Sebastian leads by 10 points.10
San SebastianTallinn
Score5848
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 22.9 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall92 mm to 203 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months04
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
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tallinn
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
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
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). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan SebastianTallinn
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 15 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 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 SebastianTallinn
Official languageSpanishEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m28 m
Main airportSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan SebastianTallinn
City population189,866457,572
People per km²3,1182,871
Museums within 10 km1415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre4563
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. 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.