VacationSelector

Hamburg 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

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

HamburgSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Hamburg and Santiago de Compostela are level on 0.
HamburgSantiago de Compostela
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km160
Coast distance22 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 25 points.25
HamburgSantiago de Compostela
Score7348
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,150336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3823
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 16 points.16
HamburgSantiago de Compostela
Score6044
Museums within 10 km9416
Museums within 2 km of centre5014
Share of museums within 2 km %5388
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 32 points.32
HamburgSantiago de Compostela
Score6836
Drinking venues within 4 km1,339306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre834268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6288
Nightclubs within 4 km11913
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 6 points.6
HamburgSantiago de Compostela
Score4046
Protected land share 50 km %1411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %9992
Park area within 2 km89 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 33 points.33
HamburgSantiago de Compostela
Score6027
Tourist attractions within 2 km402
Park area within 2 km89 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 17 points.17
HamburgSantiago de Compostela
Score5942
Notable places within 2 km11844
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 11 points.11
HamburgSantiago de Compostela
Score6071
Price level global75.960.8
Daily budget€163€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 7 points.7
HamburgSantiago de Compostela
Score5562
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm41 mm to 223 mm
Dry months10
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
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
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg 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 fromHamburgSantiago de Compostela
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€193
HAM · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 50 m
€415-451
2 stops
HAM · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 15 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 45 m
no fares
BRE · 98 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 50 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 0 m
no fares
HAM · 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

MeasureHamburgSantiago de Compostela
Official languageGermanSpanish
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
Elevation6 m260 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgSantiago de Compostela
City population1,910,160100,965
People per km²2,530459
Museums within 10 km776
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8338
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.