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Boston 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

Boston
✓ Best match
55
match

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

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on value for money and 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.

BostonSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
BostonSantiago de Compostela
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km680
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 25 points.25
BostonSantiago de Compostela
Score7348
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3223
Museums & heritage. Santiago de Compostela leads by 1 points.1
BostonSantiago de Compostela
Score4344
Museums within 10 km7916
Museums within 2 km of centre2714
Share of museums within 2 km %3488
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Boston leads by 22 points.22
BostonSantiago de Compostela
Score5836
Drinking venues within 4 km886306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5888
Nightclubs within 4 km4313
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 7 points.7
BostonSantiago de Compostela
Score5346
Protected land share 50 km %1211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7792
Park area within 2 km116 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 26 points.26
BostonSantiago de Compostela
Score5327
Tourist attractions within 2 km282
Park area within 2 km116 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 16 points.16
BostonSantiago de Compostela
Score5842
Notable places within 2 km11144
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 28 points.28
BostonSantiago de Compostela
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 6 points.6
BostonSantiago de Compostela
Score5662
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
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
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonSantiago de Compostela
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
DublinDUB
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
7 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ZurichZRH
7 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 20 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

MeasureBostonSantiago de Compostela
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m260 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonSantiago de Compostela
City population675,647100,965
People per km²2,910459
Museums within 10 km516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7438
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.