VacationSelector

San Sebastian or Tampa?

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 sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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 SebastianTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 20 points.20
San SebastianTampa
Score5575
Swim season months28
Beaches 10 km1010
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 1 points.1
San SebastianTampa
Score5554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre472359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 12 points.12
San SebastianTampa
Score3927
Museums within 10 km1713
Museums within 2 km of centre710
Share of museums within 2 km %4177
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 1 points.1
San SebastianTampa
Score4039
Drinking venues within 4 km388324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre338227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8770
Nightclubs within 4 km1226
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 26 points.26
San SebastianTampa
Score5630
Protected land share 50 km %116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5272
Park area within 2 km70 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. San Sebastian and Tampa are level on 30.
San SebastianTampa
Score3030
Tourist attractions within 2 km53
Park area within 2 km70 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 33 points.33
San SebastianTampa
Score5421
Notable places within 2 km8913
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 28 points.28
San SebastianTampa
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 17 points.17
San SebastianTampa
Score5875
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 22.9 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall92 mm to 203 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan SebastianTampa
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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 SebastianTampa
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m30 m
Main airportSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan SebastianTampa
City population189,866384,959
People per km²3,118848
Museums within 10 km146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre4547
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months8 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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.