VacationSelector

San Sebastian or Zagreb?

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

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money 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 SebastianZagreb
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 55 points.55
San SebastianZagreb
Score550
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km108
Coast distance0 km117 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 3 points.3
San SebastianZagreb
Score5552
Restaurants within 2 km of centre472374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2627
Museums & heritage. Zagreb leads by 6 points.6
San SebastianZagreb
Score3945
Museums within 10 km1741
Museums within 2 km of centre740
Share of museums within 2 km %4198
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Zagreb leads by 21 points.21
San SebastianZagreb
Score4061
Drinking venues within 4 km3881,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre338571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8757
Nightclubs within 4 km1263
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 22 points.22
San SebastianZagreb
Score5634
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km70 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. San Sebastian leads by 2 points.2
San SebastianZagreb
Score3028
Tourist attractions within 2 km57
Park area within 2 km70 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 6 points.6
San SebastianZagreb
Score5460
Notable places within 2 km89122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 9 points.9
San SebastianZagreb
Score7180
Price level global60.848.5
Daily budget€122€138
Year-round weather. Zagreb leads by 4 points.4
San SebastianZagreb
Score5862
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 22.9 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall92 mm to 203 mm47 mm to 104 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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
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). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan SebastianZagreb
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 75 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
GRZ · 137 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 75 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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 SebastianZagreb
Official languageSpanishCroatian
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 m127 m
Main airportSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan SebastianZagreb
City population189,866767,131
People per km²3,118
Museums within 10 km1427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre4542
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.