VacationSelector

Mexico City 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

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Mexico CitySantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Santiago de Compostela are level on 0.
Mexico CitySantiago de Compostela
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance247 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 18 points.18
Mexico CitySantiago de Compostela
Score6648
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1523
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 35 points.35
Mexico CitySantiago de Compostela
Score7944
Museums within 10 km13816
Museums within 2 km of centre6514
Share of museums within 2 km %4788
Unesco sites within 50 km62
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 42 points.42
Mexico CitySantiago de Compostela
Score7836
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4388
Nightclubs within 4 km19813
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 17 points.17
Mexico CitySantiago de Compostela
Score6346
Protected land share 50 km %3011
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10092
Park area within 2 km32 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 23 points.23
Mexico CitySantiago de Compostela
Score5027
Tourist attractions within 2 km232
Park area within 2 km32 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 12 points.12
Mexico CitySantiago de Compostela
Score5442
Notable places within 2 km8844
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 5 points.5
Mexico CitySantiago de Compostela
Score7671
Price level global54.260.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 28 points.28
Mexico CitySantiago de Compostela
Score9062
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm41 mm to 223 mm
Dry months60
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CitySantiago de Compostela
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 25 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

MeasureMexico CitySantiago de Compostela
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m260 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CitySantiago de Compostela
City population9,209,944100,965
People per km²6,202459
Museums within 10 km1086
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre5038
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.