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San Sebastian or Thessaloniki?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

San SebastianThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian and Thessaloniki are level on 55.
San SebastianThessaloniki
Score5555
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km104
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 5 points.5
San SebastianThessaloniki
Score5550
Restaurants within 2 km of centre472640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2615
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 10 points.10
San SebastianThessaloniki
Score3949
Museums within 10 km1734
Museums within 2 km of centre722
Share of museums within 2 km %4165
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 27 points.27
San SebastianThessaloniki
Score4067
Drinking venues within 4 km3881,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre338805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8757
Nightclubs within 4 km1261
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 9 points.9
San SebastianThessaloniki
Score5665
Protected land share 50 km %1125
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5283
Park area within 2 km70 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Thessaloniki leads by 11 points.11
San SebastianThessaloniki
Score3041
Tourist attractions within 2 km516
Park area within 2 km70 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 2 points.2
San SebastianThessaloniki
Score5456
Notable places within 2 km8998
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 3 points.3
San SebastianThessaloniki
Score7174
Price level global60.855.8
Daily budget€122€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 14 points.14
San SebastianThessaloniki
Score5872
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 22.9 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall92 mm to 203 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan SebastianThessaloniki
AthensATH
3 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 75 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SKG · 14 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 SebastianThessaloniki
Official languageSpanishGreek
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 m6 m
Main airportSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan SebastianThessaloniki
City population189,866309,617
People per km²3,11816,042
Museums within 10 km1431
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre4545
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months5 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.