VacationSelector

San Sebastian or Vienna?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
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 SebastianVienna
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 55 points.55
San SebastianVienna
Score550
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km1022
Coast distance0 km10,000 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 22 points.22
San SebastianVienna
Score5577
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4721,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2637
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 42 points.42
San SebastianVienna
Score3981
Museums within 10 km17192
Museums within 2 km of centre7110
Share of museums within 2 km %4157
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 34 points.34
San SebastianVienna
Score4074
Drinking venues within 4 km3881,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3381,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8756
Nightclubs within 4 km12108
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 24 points.24
San SebastianVienna
Score5632
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km70 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 39 points.39
San SebastianVienna
Score3069
Tourist attractions within 2 km546
Park area within 2 km70 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 21 points.21
San SebastianVienna
Score5475
Notable places within 2 km89287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 12 points.12
San SebastianVienna
Score7159
Price level global60.876.9
Daily budget€122€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 3 points.3
San SebastianVienna
Score5861
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 22.9 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall92 mm to 203 mm38 mm to 80 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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
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
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan SebastianVienna
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
1 h 5 m
€230-294
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
2 h 45 m
€152-183
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 75 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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 SebastianVienna
Official languageSpanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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
Elevation6 m151 m
Main airportSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan SebastianVienna
City population189,8662,028,289
People per km²3,1184,890
Museums within 10 km14152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre45113
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.