VacationSelector

London 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

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

LondonSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. London and Santiago de Compostela are level on 0.
LondonSantiago de Compostela
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km470
Coast distance43 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. London leads by 40 points.40
LondonSantiago de Compostela
Score8848
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4023
Museums & heritage. London leads by 28 points.28
LondonSantiago de Compostela
Score7244
Museums within 10 km14816
Museums within 2 km of centre4914
Share of museums within 2 km %3388
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. London leads by 59 points.59
LondonSantiago de Compostela
Score9536
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4688
Nightclubs within 4 km31213
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 6 points.6
LondonSantiago de Compostela
Score4046
Protected land share 50 km %1611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9792
Park area within 2 km84 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 48 points.48
LondonSantiago de Compostela
Score7527
Tourist attractions within 2 km852
Park area within 2 km84 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. London leads by 47 points.47
LondonSantiago de Compostela
Score8942
Notable places within 2 km64944
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 17 points.17
LondonSantiago de Compostela
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. London leads by 1 points.1
LondonSantiago de Compostela
Score6362
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 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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J
A
S
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D
Daytime high, °C
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
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
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLondonSantiago de Compostela
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
€79-116
LGW · 40 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 20 m
€66-100
LGW · 40 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
2 h 30 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 50 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 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

MeasureLondonSantiago 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
Elevation4 m260 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonSantiago de Compostela
City population8,799,728100,965
People per km²5,598459
Museums within 10 km2156
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre11638
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). 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. 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.