VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale 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

Fort Lauderdale
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

Fort LauderdaleSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
Fort LauderdaleSantiago de Compostela
Score840
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km70
Coast distance0 km26 km
Water distance0 km26 km
Places to eat. Santiago de Compostela leads by 3 points.3
Fort LauderdaleSantiago de Compostela
Score4548
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1823
Museums & heritage. Santiago de Compostela leads by 24 points.24
Fort LauderdaleSantiago de Compostela
Score2044
Museums within 10 km1416
Museums within 2 km of centre614
Share of museums within 2 km %4388
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Santiago de Compostela leads by 2 points.2
Fort LauderdaleSantiago de Compostela
Score3436
Drinking venues within 4 km259306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5688
Nightclubs within 4 km1813
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 35 points.35
Fort LauderdaleSantiago de Compostela
Score8146
Protected land share 50 km %2011
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5192
Park area within 2 km45 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Santiago de Compostela leads by 8 points.8
Fort LauderdaleSantiago de Compostela
Score1927
Tourist attractions within 2 km22
Park area within 2 km45 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Santiago de Compostela leads by 42 points.42
Fort LauderdaleSantiago de Compostela
Score042
Notable places within 2 km244
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 28 points.28
Fort LauderdaleSantiago de Compostela
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 14 points.14
Fort LauderdaleSantiago de Compostela
Score7662
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleSantiago de Compostela
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
DublinDUB
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 25 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleSantiago 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
Elevation11 m260 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleSantiago de Compostela
City population182,760100,965
People per km²1,829459
Museums within 10 km66
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2538
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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.