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Melbourne 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

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

MelbourneSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 55 points.55
MelbourneSantiago de Compostela
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km190
Coast distance4 km26 km
Water distance4 km26 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 27 points.27
MelbourneSantiago de Compostela
Score7548
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,888336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2923
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 5 points.5
MelbourneSantiago de Compostela
Score4944
Museums within 10 km4216
Museums within 2 km of centre2414
Share of museums within 2 km %5788
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 38 points.38
MelbourneSantiago de Compostela
Score7436
Drinking venues within 4 km1,921306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6288
Nightclubs within 4 km12413
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 3 points.3
MelbourneSantiago de Compostela
Score4346
Protected land share 50 km %611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8192
Park area within 2 km166 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 33 points.33
MelbourneSantiago de Compostela
Score6027
Tourist attractions within 2 km262
Park area within 2 km166 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 15 points.15
MelbourneSantiago de Compostela
Score5742
Notable places within 2 km10344
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 21 points.21
MelbourneSantiago de Compostela
Score5071
Price level global90.260.8
Daily budget—€122
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 14 points.14
MelbourneSantiago de Compostela
Score7662
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Before you go

MeasureMelbourneSantiago de Compostela
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m260 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneSantiago de Compostela
City population5,350,705100,965
People per km²535459
Museums within 10 km426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8638
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. 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.