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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
The cathedral above the old town, Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de CompostelaThe cathedral above the old town

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

Antwerp 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 Antwerp for

  • shopping
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Santiago de Compostela for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • beaches

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. Antwerp 15, Santiago de Compostela 32: Santiago de Compostela leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Santiago de Compostela 68: Santiago de Compostela leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Santiago de Compostela 70: Antwerp leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Santiago de Compostela 45: Antwerp leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Santiago de Compostela 62: Santiago de Compostela leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Santiago de Compostela 72: Antwerp leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Santiago de Compostela 42: Antwerp leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Santiago de Compostela 70: Antwerp leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Santiago de Compostela 35: Antwerp leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Santiago de Compostela 64: Santiago de Compostela leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Santiago de Compostela 40: Antwerp leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, Santiago de Compostela 42: Santiago de Compostela leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Santiago de Compostela.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Antwerp
55match

Wins on shopping and families with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
54match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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

Antwerp 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.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpSantiago de Compostela
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m260 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpSantiago de Compostela
City population529,247100,965
People per km²2,542459
Museums within 10 km386
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km92
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.