VacationSelector

Kyoto 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

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

KyotoSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoSantiago de Compostela
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance47 km26 km
Water distance47 km26 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 36 points.36
KyotoSantiago de Compostela
Score8448
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2223
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 28 points.28
KyotoSantiago de Compostela
Score7244
Museums within 10 km13216
Museums within 2 km of centre5114
Share of museums within 2 km %3988
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 44 points.44
KyotoSantiago de Compostela
Score8036
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7388
Nightclubs within 4 km2613
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 24 points.24
KyotoSantiago de Compostela
Score2246
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10092
Park area within 2 km45 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 39 points.39
KyotoSantiago de Compostela
Score6627
Tourist attractions within 2 km622
Park area within 2 km45 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 10 points.10
KyotoSantiago de Compostela
Score5242
Notable places within 2 km7944
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 1 points.1
KyotoSantiago de Compostela
Score7071
Price level global62.460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Kyoto and Santiago de Compostela are level on 62.
KyotoSantiago de Compostela
Score6262
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
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. Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoSantiago de Compostela
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 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 2026-09 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

MeasureKyotoSantiago de Compostela
Official languageJapaneseSpanish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation51 m260 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoSantiago de Compostela
City population1,463,723100,965
People per km²1,768459
Museums within 10 km766
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8938
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.