VacationSelector

Lyon 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

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

LyonSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Lyon and Santiago de Compostela are level on 0.
LyonSantiago de Compostela
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km260
Coast distance253 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 31 points.31
LyonSantiago de Compostela
Score7948
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,691336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4023
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 11 points.11
LyonSantiago de Compostela
Score5544
Museums within 10 km5316
Museums within 2 km of centre2514
Share of museums within 2 km %4788
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 22 points.22
LyonSantiago de Compostela
Score5836
Drinking venues within 4 km866306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre611268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7188
Nightclubs within 4 km4713
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 13 points.13
LyonSantiago de Compostela
Score3346
Protected land share 50 km %611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %60
Land share of disc %10092
Park area within 2 km120 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 32 points.32
LyonSantiago de Compostela
Score5927
Tourist attractions within 2 km252
Park area within 2 km120 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 12 points.12
LyonSantiago de Compostela
Score5442
Notable places within 2 km8644
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 9 points.9
LyonSantiago de Compostela
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 2 points.2
LyonSantiago de Compostela
Score6462
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
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. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonSantiago de Compostela
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
1 h 45 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
2 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 55 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 55 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
€105-126
LYS · 20 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLyonSantiago de Compostela
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation160 m260 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonSantiago de Compostela
City population519,127100,965
People per km²10,838459
Museums within 10 km426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre14838
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.