VacationSelector

San Sebastian or The Hague?

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 value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

San SebastianThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 5 points.5
San SebastianThe Hague
Score5560
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km1034
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 15 points.15
San SebastianThe Hague
Score5570
Restaurants within 2 km of centre472798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2643
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 23 points.23
San SebastianThe Hague
Score3962
Museums within 10 km1746
Museums within 2 km of centre726
Share of museums within 2 km %4157
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 6 points.6
San SebastianThe Hague
Score4046
Drinking venues within 4 km388511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre338288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8756
Nightclubs within 4 km1219
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 2 points.2
San SebastianThe Hague
Score5654
Protected land share 50 km %118
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5256
Park area within 2 km70 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 26 points.26
San SebastianThe Hague
Score3056
Tourist attractions within 2 km510
Park area within 2 km70 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. San Sebastian and The Hague are level on 54.
San SebastianThe Hague
Score5454
Notable places within 2 km8986
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 13 points.13
San SebastianThe Hague
Score7158
Price level global60.879.2
Daily budget€122€181
Year-round weather. San Sebastian leads by 4 points.4
San SebastianThe Hague
Score5854
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 22.9 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall92 mm to 203 mm42 mm to 85 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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan SebastianThe Hague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 40 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RTM · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 15 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 132 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RTM · 16 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 SebastianThe Hague
Official languageSpanishDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation6 m1 m
Main airportSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan SebastianThe Hague
City population189,866548,320
People per km²3,1185,589
Museums within 10 km1454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre4577
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.