VacationSelector

Budapest 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

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BudapestSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Santiago de Compostela are level on 0.
BudapestSantiago de Compostela
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance10,000 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 29 points.29
BudapestSantiago de Compostela
Score7748
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3523
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 20 points.20
BudapestSantiago de Compostela
Score6444
Museums within 10 km14416
Museums within 2 km of centre6414
Share of museums within 2 km %4488
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 36 points.36
BudapestSantiago de Compostela
Score7236
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6688
Nightclubs within 4 km9713
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 6 points.6
BudapestSantiago de Compostela
Score4046
Protected land share 50 km %811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10092
Park area within 2 km111 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 44 points.44
BudapestSantiago de Compostela
Score7127
Tourist attractions within 2 km752
Park area within 2 km111 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 27 points.27
BudapestSantiago de Compostela
Score6942
Notable places within 2 km20644
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 9 points.9
BudapestSantiago de Compostela
Score8071
Price level global4860.8
Daily budget€104€122
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 2 points.2
BudapestSantiago de Compostela
Score6462
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm41 mm to 223 mm
Dry months50
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBudapestSantiago de Compostela
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
5 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 55 m
€85-148
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 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

MeasureBudapestSantiago de Compostela
Official languageHungarianSpanish
CurrencyForint (HUF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m260 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestSantiago de Compostela
City population1,685,209100,965
People per km²3,209459
Museums within 10 km816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8638
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Budapest or Santiago de Compostela somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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). 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. 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.

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.