AAA2016 - How to get here

Its strategic location and excellent infrastructures make San Sebastián a place easy to reach from anywhere in the world, no matter what your method of transport. Choose the one that suits you best and get travelling!

By plane

San Sebastián has 3 airports (2 international) within just over 100 km of the city.

Only 20 kilometers from the city centre, San Sebastián Airport has connections to the major Spanish cities; Madrid and Barcelona.

Bilbao Airport, with connections to all Europe, is 100km from the city, and Biarritz Airport, served by French and international low-cost companies, 40km. 

By train

RENFE

The company RENFE rail service offers both long-distance train and suburban

The train station in the centre of San Sebastián, the "Estación del Norte", offers connections to numerous Spanish cities including Madrid and Barcelona, and to international destinations such as Paris and Lisbon.

Train journeys to and from San Sebastián will gain enormously in speed with the new Tren de Alta Velocidad (high speed train), due to connect the city with other destinations in the near future.

EUSKO TREN

There is also an underground railway, the Metro Donostialdea, a narrow-gauge train connection with Bilbao and cities along the Basque Coast, such as Zarautz. The service linking it also Hendaye (France) and the SNCF, french rail service, with Lasarte passing through Donostia. The train is popularly known as the "Topo" or "Mole".

SNCF

The French company SNCF connects with world capitals such as Paris from Hendaye train station.

By bus

The San Sebastián bus station has lines to cities throughout Spain and part of Europe. San Sebastian has a new bus station situated in Paseo Federico García Lorca 1, 20.014 Donostia, Near the train station. The other station at Pio XII square will no longer be in operation.

INFORMATION FOR BUS DRIVERS

Private coaches arriving to San Sebastian can find an appropriate place to stop, in order passengers to get off and get on. The bus can only stop for a maximum of 20 minutes at this place located in Avenida Zurriola, 6, in front of Kursaal Congress Hall, just 5 minutes walking from city’s Old Town and city centre. (43° 19' 26.1366"N 1° 58' 43.1898"W)

To park the bus, there is a suitable place behind Garbera Commercial Centre, at the east side of the town (43°18'33"N 1°56'42"W). This commercial centre is connected by buses 33, 24 & 27 of the DBus bus company.

By car

Getting to San Sebastián by car is extremely easy. The city is connected to the rest of Spain and France by the N-1 (the national highway connecting Madrid to Irun), the AP-8 (Bilbao-Irun) and A-63 (Paris-Irun) motorways and the A-15 highway (Pamplona-San Sebastián).

Once in San Sebastián, you can leave your car in one of the more than 6,000 parking places found in different parts of the city.

By motorbike

In the city of San Sebastian you can not park your motorbike in the side walk and if you do it you can be fined. The city have specific parking for motorbikes.