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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
The cathedral above the old town, Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de CompostelaThe cathedral above the old town

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; Santiago de Compostela by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Agra or Santiago de Compostela?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Agra for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Agra’s own page.

Choose Santiago de Compostela for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago de Compostela’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Agra 3, Santiago de Compostela 32: Santiago de Compostela leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, Santiago de Compostela 68: Santiago de Compostela leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, Santiago de Compostela 70: Agra leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, Santiago de Compostela 45: Santiago de Compostela leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra 30, Santiago de Compostela 62: Santiago de Compostela leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Agra 70, Santiago de Compostela 72: Santiago de Compostela leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, Santiago de Compostela 42: Santiago de Compostela leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, Santiago de Compostela 35: Agra leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, Santiago de Compostela 64: Agra leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, Santiago de Compostela 40: Santiago de Compostela leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, Santiago de Compostela 42: Santiago de Compostela leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and Santiago de Compostela.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Agra
36match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
Best match
54match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Agra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Santiago de Compostela in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Agra has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgraSantiago de Compostela
Official languageHindi, EnglishSpanish
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112112
Elevation171 m260 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgraSantiago de Compostela
City population1,585,705100,965
People per km²8,417459
Museums within 10 km06
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.