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Copenhagen 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

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
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.

CopenhagenSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenSantiago de Compostela
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 25 points.25
CopenhagenSantiago de Compostela
Score7348
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3723
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 31 points.31
CopenhagenSantiago de Compostela
Score7544
Museums within 10 km8316
Museums within 2 km of centre5114
Share of museums within 2 km %6188
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 31 points.31
CopenhagenSantiago de Compostela
Score6736
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5888
Nightclubs within 4 km6413
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 4 points.4
CopenhagenSantiago de Compostela
Score5046
Protected land share 50 km %511
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3992
Park area within 2 km138 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 44 points.44
CopenhagenSantiago de Compostela
Score7127
Tourist attractions within 2 km542
Park area within 2 km138 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 32 points.32
CopenhagenSantiago de Compostela
Score7442
Notable places within 2 km27344
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 19 points.19
CopenhagenSantiago de Compostela
Score5271
Price level global87.860.8
Daily budget€214€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 7 points.7
CopenhagenSantiago de Compostela
Score5562
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm41 mm to 223 mm
Dry months30
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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
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. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenSantiago de Compostela
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
3 h 5 m
€122-160
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 35 m
€144-151
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
5 h 10 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCopenhagenSantiago de Compostela
Official languageDanishSpanish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m260 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenSantiago de Compostela
City population667,099100,965
People per km²7,339459
Museums within 10 km726
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre8238
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). 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. 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.