VacationSelector

Ottawa 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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Ottawa
43
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

OttawaSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Ottawa and Santiago de Compostela are level on 0.
OttawaSantiago de Compostela
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance423 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 16 points.16
OttawaSantiago de Compostela
Score6448
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3423
Museums & heritage. Santiago de Compostela leads by 12 points.12
OttawaSantiago de Compostela
Score3244
Museums within 10 km1516
Museums within 2 km of centre814
Share of museums within 2 km %5388
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 8 points.8
OttawaSantiago de Compostela
Score4436
Drinking venues within 4 km432306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7088
Nightclubs within 4 km3513
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 5 points.5
OttawaSantiago de Compostela
Score4146
Protected land share 50 km %811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10092
Park area within 2 km122 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 19 points.19
OttawaSantiago de Compostela
Score4627
Tourist attractions within 2 km112
Park area within 2 km122 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Ottawa leads by 8 points.8
OttawaSantiago de Compostela
Score5042
Notable places within 2 km7144
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 17 points.17
OttawaSantiago de Compostela
Score5471
Price level global8460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 9 points.9
OttawaSantiago de Compostela
Score5362
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Ottawa
No coastline within reach
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
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
Ottawa
No sunshine record
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. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaSantiago de Compostela
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 55 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.

Before you go

MeasureOttawaSantiago de Compostela
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)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
Elevation70 m260 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaSantiago de Compostela
City population1,017,449100,965
People per km²366459
Museums within 10 km206
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre6238
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.