Festival Internacional de Cine
Festival Internacional de Cine: Film, Donostia / San Sebastián, September
- MonthSeptember
- Event typeFilm
- How the date is setSeasonal window, no rule
- TownDonostia / San Sebastián
- RegionPaís Vasco
Context
- Radius of effect50–100 km: the event moves occupancy and rate
- Attendance181,183 · 2025 Confirmed
- What is countedspectators at screenings
- Published byFestival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián
- Caveat on the figureBalance for the 73rd edition: 181,183 spectators across 666 screenings. Counts screening admissions, not unique people. Accreditations (5,556) are a different quantity. The 74th edition's balance is not published.
- Origin not publishedNo visitor-origin breakdown is published, and what circulates alongside is PRESS accreditations by country — a different population. The festival publishes 387 Spanish outlets against 231 foreign ones. That is the press, not the audience: a different population, and the foreign share of the press at a film festival is structurally higher than the foreign share of the spectators.
- Inbound flow to the community that month312,593 foreign trips — 9.2% of the community's annual flow. The community peaks in August. Estimate
- Country mix of the flowThe country mix is published for August only, and for a festival in September it says nothing: putting it here would pass one month off as another.
- What this is NOTThis is the flow into the community, not the audience of the festival. Not one of the 83 Spanish festivals publishes a visitor passport. Basis: trips inferred from phone positioning — NOT a passport — TMOV_R, measurement from mobile-phone positioning.
- Regional seasonalityYear-round
- Regional volume, 20257.7m hotel overnight stays (INE)
- Upper-tier houses in town2
- With a MICHELIN Key in town2
- Rooms recorded158
- Starred tables in townAkelaŕe · Arzak
- FestivalsTamborrada de San Sebastián · Jazzaldia
Hotels
| Hotels | Distinction | Rooms |
|---|---|---|
| Akelarre | Key | 22 |
| Hotel María Cristina, a Luxury Collection Hotel | Key | 136 |
Starred tables
Festivals
Tamborrada de San Sebastián · Jazzaldia
Related
País Vasco · Donostia / San Sebastián · Festivals
How to read the marks
- 'confirmed' on an attendance figure means: a named body stated it for a named edition.
- 'estimate' means: the body itself presents the figure as an estimate and publishes no method.
The month is given for a typical year: Spanish fiesta dates often follow the church calendar and move. Verified 1 September 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the same register that feeds the tables — there is no second source of truth. What the register does not hold is absent here rather than estimated.