VacationSelector

Bangkok 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

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

BangkokSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokSantiago de Compostela
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance23 km26 km
Water distance23 km26 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 35 points.35
BangkokSantiago de Compostela
Score8348
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2623
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
BangkokSantiago de Compostela
Score4644
Museums within 10 km10316
Museums within 2 km of centre3014
Share of museums within 2 km %2988
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 47 points.47
BangkokSantiago de Compostela
Score8336
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4188
Nightclubs within 4 km7213
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 5 points.5
BangkokSantiago de Compostela
Score5146
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8392
Park area within 2 km42 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 30 points.30
BangkokSantiago de Compostela
Score5727
Tourist attractions within 2 km312
Park area within 2 km42 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 6 points.6
BangkokSantiago de Compostela
Score4842
Notable places within 2 km6244
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 22 points.22
BangkokSantiago de Compostela
Score9371
Price level global29.760.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 6 points.6
BangkokSantiago de Compostela
Score5662
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm41 mm to 223 mm
Dry months30
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokSantiago de Compostela
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 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

MeasureBangkokSantiago de Compostela
Official languageThaiSpanish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m260 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokSantiago de Compostela
City population5,676,648100,965
People per km²3,619459
Museums within 10 km596
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre9138
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.