VacationSelector

Avignon or Santiago de Compostela?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Avignon
41
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
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.

AvignonSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and Santiago de Compostela are level on 0.
AvignonSantiago de Compostela
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance55 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Santiago de Compostela leads by 4 points.4
AvignonSantiago de Compostela
Score4448
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1823
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 11 points.11
AvignonSantiago de Compostela
Score5544
Museums within 10 km1716
Museums within 2 km of centre1614
Share of museums within 2 km %9488
Unesco sites within 50 km62
Nightlife. Santiago de Compostela leads by 20 points.20
AvignonSantiago de Compostela
Score1636
Drinking venues within 4 km115306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8488
Nightclubs within 4 km413
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 2 points.2
AvignonSantiago de Compostela
Score4446
Protected land share 50 km %3611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10092
Park area within 2 km23 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 15 points.15
AvignonSantiago de Compostela
Score4227
Tourist attractions within 2 km152
Park area within 2 km23 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Santiago de Compostela leads by 2 points.2
AvignonSantiago de Compostela
Score4042
Notable places within 2 km4044
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 9 points.9
AvignonSantiago de Compostela
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 8 points.8
AvignonSantiago de Compostela
Score7062
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm41 mm to 223 mm
Dry months20
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
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonSantiago de Compostela
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 35 m
€114-174
MRS · 65 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 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

MeasureAvignonSantiago de Compostela
Official languageFrenchSpanish
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
Elevation10 m260 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonSantiago de Compostela
City population92,188100,965
People per km²1,420459
Museums within 10 km116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre3638
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. 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.