VacationSelector

Bath 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, 2 points apart

Bath
40
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

BathSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathSantiago de Compostela
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance29 km26 km
Water distance29 km26 km
Places to eat. Santiago de Compostela leads by 2 points.2
BathSantiago de Compostela
Score4648
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2623
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 3 points.3
BathSantiago de Compostela
Score4744
Museums within 10 km2016
Museums within 2 km of centre1414
Share of museums within 2 km %7088
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Bath and Santiago de Compostela are level on 36.
BathSantiago de Compostela
Score3636
Drinking venues within 4 km320306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7588
Nightclubs within 4 km1113
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 2 points.2
BathSantiago de Compostela
Score4446
Protected land share 50 km %2811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9292
Park area within 2 km45 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 13 points.13
BathSantiago de Compostela
Score4027
Tourist attractions within 2 km142
Park area within 2 km45 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Santiago de Compostela leads by 10 points.10
BathSantiago de Compostela
Score3242
Notable places within 2 km2544
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 17 points.17
BathSantiago de Compostela
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 7 points.7
BathSantiago de Compostela
Score5562
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm41 mm to 223 mm
Dry months00
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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBathSantiago de Compostela
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 25 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBathSantiago de Compostela
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m260 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathSantiago de Compostela
City population94,092100,965
People per km²3,245459
Museums within 10 km176
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3838
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.