VacationSelector

Belgrade 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

Belgrade
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

BelgradeSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Belgrade and Santiago de Compostela are level on 0.
BelgradeSantiago de Compostela
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance292 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Belgrade leads by 15 points.15
BelgradeSantiago de Compostela
Score6348
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2923
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeSantiago de Compostela
Score5344
Museums within 10 km6716
Museums within 2 km of centre4714
Share of museums within 2 km %7088
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 29 points.29
BelgradeSantiago de Compostela
Score6536
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7288
Nightclubs within 4 km13013
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 8 points.8
BelgradeSantiago de Compostela
Score3846
Protected land share 50 km %611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10092
Park area within 2 km147 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 24 points.24
BelgradeSantiago de Compostela
Score5127
Tourist attractions within 2 km142
Park area within 2 km147 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 26 points.26
BelgradeSantiago de Compostela
Score6842
Notable places within 2 km19044
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 14 points.14
BelgradeSantiago de Compostela
Score8571
Price level global41.760.8
Daily budget€99€122
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 3 points.3
BelgradeSantiago de Compostela
Score6562
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 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
Belgrade
5
8
13
19
24
27
29
30
24
19
12
6
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
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
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
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. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeSantiago de Compostela
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 30 m
€90-147
BEG · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
5 h 10 m
no fares
TSR · 130 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 50 m
no fares
BEG · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
2 h 25 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

MeasureBelgradeSantiago de Compostela
Official languageSerbianSpanish
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193112
Elevation117 m260 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeSantiago de Compostela
City population1,197,714100,965
People per km²3,327459
Museums within 10 km656
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6238
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.