VacationSelector

Dublin 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

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and 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.

DublinSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinSantiago de Compostela
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance3 km26 km
Water distance3 km26 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 22 points.22
DublinSantiago de Compostela
Score7048
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3723
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 11 points.11
DublinSantiago de Compostela
Score5544
Museums within 10 km4716
Museums within 2 km of centre3714
Share of museums within 2 km %7988
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 28 points.28
DublinSantiago de Compostela
Score6436
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7588
Nightclubs within 4 km4013
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 20 points.20
DublinSantiago de Compostela
Score2646
Protected land share 50 km %311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6292
Park area within 2 km43 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 27 points.27
DublinSantiago de Compostela
Score5427
Tourist attractions within 2 km412
Park area within 2 km43 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 20 points.20
DublinSantiago de Compostela
Score6242
Notable places within 2 km14144
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 14 points.14
DublinSantiago de Compostela
Score5771
Price level global80.260.8
Daily budget€187€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 8 points.8
DublinSantiago de Compostela
Score5462
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinSantiago de Compostela
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 10 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
2 h 45 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 45 m
€94-104
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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

MeasureDublinSantiago de Compostela
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m260 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinSantiago de Compostela
City population592,713100,965
People per km²5,154459
Museums within 10 km406
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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). 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. 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.