VacationSelector

Inverness 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

Inverness
25
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

InvernessSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
InvernessSantiago de Compostela
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. Santiago de Compostela leads by 27 points.27
InvernessSantiago de Compostela
Score2148
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1123
Museums & heritage. Santiago de Compostela leads by 24 points.24
InvernessSantiago de Compostela
Score2044
Museums within 10 km616
Museums within 2 km of centre514
Share of museums within 2 km %8388
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Santiago de Compostela leads by 21 points.21
InvernessSantiago de Compostela
Score1536
Drinking venues within 4 km113306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8788
Nightclubs within 4 km413
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 37 points.37
InvernessSantiago de Compostela
Score946
Protected land share 50 km %1211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8892
Park area within 2 km3 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Santiago de Compostela leads by 27 points.27
InvernessSantiago de Compostela
Score027
Tourist attractions within 2 km32
Park area within 2 km3 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Santiago de Compostela leads by 18 points.18
InvernessSantiago de Compostela
Score2442
Notable places within 2 km1644
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 17 points.17
InvernessSantiago de Compostela
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 10 points.10
InvernessSantiago de Compostela
Score5262
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
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. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessSantiago de Compostela
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 40 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 10 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 20 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

MeasureInvernessSantiago 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
Elevation7 m260 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessSantiago de Compostela
City population47,380100,965
People per km²2,289459
Museums within 10 km36
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre1538
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.