VacationSelector

Dubrovnik 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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

DubrovnikSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
DubrovnikSantiago de Compostela
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km430
Coast distance0 km26 km
Water distance0 km26 km
Places to eat. Santiago de Compostela leads by 10 points.10
DubrovnikSantiago de Compostela
Score3848
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1823
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 5 points.5
DubrovnikSantiago de Compostela
Score4944
Museums within 10 km1816
Museums within 2 km of centre1714
Share of museums within 2 km %9488
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Santiago de Compostela leads by 16 points.16
DubrovnikSantiago de Compostela
Score2036
Drinking venues within 4 km128306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8688
Nightclubs within 4 km1313
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 41 points.41
DubrovnikSantiago de Compostela
Score546
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5192
Park area within 2 km6 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Santiago de Compostela leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikSantiago de Compostela
Score2127
Tourist attractions within 2 km122
Park area within 2 km6 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 2 points.2
DubrovnikSantiago de Compostela
Score4442
Notable places within 2 km4844
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 9 points.9
DubrovnikSantiago de Compostela
Score8071
Price level global48.560.8
Daily budget€138€122
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 3 points.3
DubrovnikSantiago de Compostela
Score6562
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
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
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
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. Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikSantiago de Compostela
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€59-120
1 stop
TGD · 99 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 20 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 15 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

MeasureDubrovnikSantiago de Compostela
Official languageCroatianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)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
Elevation10 m260 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikSantiago de Compostela
City population41,562100,965
People per km²459
Museums within 10 km76
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre3238
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.