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San Sebastian or West Palm Beach?

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.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 SebastianWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 33 points.33
San SebastianWest Palm Beach
Score5588
Swim season months212
Beaches 10 km1010
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 18 points.18
San SebastianWest Palm Beach
Score5537
Restaurants within 2 km of centre472262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2614
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 22 points.22
San SebastianWest Palm Beach
Score3917
Museums within 10 km175
Museums within 2 km of centre73
Share of museums within 2 km %4160
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 20 points.20
San SebastianWest Palm Beach
Score4020
Drinking venues within 4 km388132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre33890
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8768
Nightclubs within 4 km1210
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 13 points.13
San SebastianWest Palm Beach
Score5669
Protected land share 50 km %1115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5245
Park area within 2 km70 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. San Sebastian leads by 9 points.9
San SebastianWest Palm Beach
Score3021
Tourist attractions within 2 km53
Park area within 2 km70 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 42 points.42
San SebastianWest Palm Beach
Score5412
Notable places within 2 km898
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 28 points.28
San SebastianWest Palm Beach
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 17 points.17
San SebastianWest Palm Beach
Score5875
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 22.9 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall92 mm to 203 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan SebastianWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 75 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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 SebastianWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan SebastianWest Palm Beach
City population189,866117,415
People per km²3,118786
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre4518
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.