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Bordeaux 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

Bordeaux
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on 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.

BordeauxSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Santiago de Compostela are level on 0.
BordeauxSantiago de Compostela
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance18 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 20 points.20
BordeauxSantiago de Compostela
Score6848
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3223
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 11 points.11
BordeauxSantiago de Compostela
Score5544
Museums within 10 km3516
Museums within 2 km of centre1714
Share of museums within 2 km %4988
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxSantiago de Compostela
Score4836
Drinking venues within 4 km546306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7888
Nightclubs within 4 km3213
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxSantiago de Compostela
Score5146
Protected land share 50 km %3511
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8592
Park area within 2 km43 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 18 points.18
BordeauxSantiago de Compostela
Score4527
Tourist attractions within 2 km212
Park area within 2 km43 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 3 points.3
BordeauxSantiago de Compostela
Score4542
Notable places within 2 km5144
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxSantiago de Compostela
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxSantiago de Compostela
Score6862
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 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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D
Daytime high, °C
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
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
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
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. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxSantiago de Compostela
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 50 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 30 m
€154-179
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 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

MeasureBordeauxSantiago 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
Elevation1 m260 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxSantiago de Compostela
City population267,991100,965
People per km²5,425459
Museums within 10 km186
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8138
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.