VacationSelector

Glasgow 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

Glasgow
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

GlasgowSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
GlasgowSantiago de Compostela
Score360
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance3 km26 km
Water distance3 km26 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 15 points.15
GlasgowSantiago de Compostela
Score6348
Restaurants within 2 km of centre740336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2923
Museums & heritage. Glasgow leads by 1 points.1
GlasgowSantiago de Compostela
Score4544
Museums within 10 km3216
Museums within 2 km of centre1314
Share of museums within 2 km %4188
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 27 points.27
GlasgowSantiago de Compostela
Score6336
Drinking venues within 4 km1,078306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6188
Nightclubs within 4 km7313
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 8 points.8
GlasgowSantiago de Compostela
Score3846
Protected land share 50 km %1611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %9192
Park area within 2 km56 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Glasgow leads by 14 points.14
GlasgowSantiago de Compostela
Score4127
Tourist attractions within 2 km132
Park area within 2 km56 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 11 points.11
GlasgowSantiago de Compostela
Score5342
Notable places within 2 km8044
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 17 points.17
GlasgowSantiago de Compostela
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 19 points.19
GlasgowSantiago de Compostela
Score4362
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
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
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
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. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowSantiago de Compostela
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
3 h 5 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 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

MeasureGlasgowSantiago de Compostela
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m260 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowSantiago de Compostela
City population626,410100,965
People per km²190459
Museums within 10 km296
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre5438
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.