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Krakow 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

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on 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.

KrakowSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Krakow and Santiago de Compostela are level on 0.
KrakowSantiago de Compostela
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance456 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 20 points.20
KrakowSantiago de Compostela
Score6848
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3023
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 31 points.31
KrakowSantiago de Compostela
Score7544
Museums within 10 km8416
Museums within 2 km of centre6914
Share of museums within 2 km %8288
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 21 points.21
KrakowSantiago de Compostela
Score5736
Drinking venues within 4 km836306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8388
Nightclubs within 4 km5413
Nature & day trips. Krakow and Santiago de Compostela are level on 46.
KrakowSantiago de Compostela
Score4646
Protected land share 50 km %1411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10092
Park area within 2 km79 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 47 points.47
KrakowSantiago de Compostela
Score7427
Tourist attractions within 2 km772
Park area within 2 km79 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 26 points.26
KrakowSantiago de Compostela
Score6842
Notable places within 2 km19844
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 8 points.8
KrakowSantiago de Compostela
Score7971
Price level global4960.8
Daily budget€133€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 4 points.4
KrakowSantiago de Compostela
Score5862
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm41 mm to 223 mm
Dry months40
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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
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. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowSantiago de Compostela
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
3 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
3 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
5 h 15 m
no fares
KTW · 76 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 45 m
no fares
KTW · 76 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 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

MeasureKrakowSantiago de Compostela
Official languagePolishSpanish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m260 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowSantiago de Compostela
City population804,237100,965
People per km²2,459459
Museums within 10 km1146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre6838
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). 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. 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.

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.