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A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach
The cathedral above the old town, Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de CompostelaThe cathedral above the old town

Photos: Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Santiago de Compostela by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Miami Beach or Santiago de Compostela?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Miami Beach for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami Beach’s own page.

Choose Santiago de Compostela for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago de Compostela’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Miami Beach 92, Santiago de Compostela 32: Miami Beach leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Miami Beach 62, Santiago de Compostela 68: Santiago de Compostela leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Miami Beach 52, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Miami Beach 80, Santiago de Compostela 45: Miami Beach leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Miami Beach 52, Santiago de Compostela 62: Santiago de Compostela leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Miami Beach 55, Santiago de Compostela 72: Santiago de Compostela leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Miami Beach 60, Santiago de Compostela 42: Miami Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Miami Beach 58, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Miami Beach 55, Santiago de Compostela 35: Miami Beach leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Miami Beach 20, Santiago de Compostela 64: Santiago de Compostela leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Miami Beach 55, Santiago de Compostela 40: Miami Beach leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Miami Beach 48, Santiago de Compostela 42: Miami Beach leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Miami Beach and Santiago de Compostela.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Miami Beach
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
54match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Santiago de Compostela in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Miami BeachSantiago de Compostela

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMiami BeachSantiago de Compostela
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1 m260 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiami BeachSantiago de Compostela
City population82,890100,965
People per km²2,109459
Museums within 10 km146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.