VacationSelector

Palermo 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

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

PalermoSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
PalermoSantiago de Compostela
Score670
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 2 points.2
PalermoSantiago de Compostela
Score5048
Restaurants within 2 km of centre807336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1323
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 6 points.6
PalermoSantiago de Compostela
Score5044
Museums within 10 km3216
Museums within 2 km of centre2614
Share of museums within 2 km %8188
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 17 points.17
PalermoSantiago de Compostela
Score5336
Drinking venues within 4 km799306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre515268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6488
Nightclubs within 4 km1613
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 10 points.10
PalermoSantiago de Compostela
Score3646
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4592
Park area within 2 km63 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 14 points.14
PalermoSantiago de Compostela
Score4127
Tourist attractions within 2 km162
Park area within 2 km63 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 15 points.15
PalermoSantiago de Compostela
Score5742
Notable places within 2 km10444
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 3 points.3
PalermoSantiago de Compostela
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 15 points.15
PalermoSantiago de Compostela
Score7762
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm41 mm to 223 mm
Dry months70
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
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. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoSantiago de Compostela
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€92-140
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
2 h 35 m
no fares
TPS · 80 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 45 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
BolognaBLQ
1 h 30 m
€28-65
PMO · 25 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ValenciaVLC
2 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€114-174
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 55 m
€161-283
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
2 h 20 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 2026-08 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

MeasurePalermoSantiago de Compostela
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m260 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoSantiago de Compostela
City population630,167100,965
People per km²3,924459
Museums within 10 km426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3338
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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). 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. 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.