VacationSelector

Pisa 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

Pisa
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

PisaSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
PisaSantiago de Compostela
Score210
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance10 km26 km
Water distance10 km26 km
Places to eat. Santiago de Compostela leads by 14 points.14
PisaSantiago de Compostela
Score3448
Restaurants within 2 km of centre379336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km923
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 11 points.11
PisaSantiago de Compostela
Score5544
Museums within 10 km2716
Museums within 2 km of centre2214
Share of museums within 2 km %8188
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Santiago de Compostela leads by 8 points.8
PisaSantiago de Compostela
Score2836
Drinking venues within 4 km232306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8888
Nightclubs within 4 km313
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 7 points.7
PisaSantiago de Compostela
Score3946
Protected land share 50 km %911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6592
Park area within 2 km40 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 20 points.20
PisaSantiago de Compostela
Score4727
Tourist attractions within 2 km202
Park area within 2 km40 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 5 points.5
PisaSantiago de Compostela
Score4742
Notable places within 2 km5844
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 3 points.3
PisaSantiago de Compostela
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 8 points.8
PisaSantiago de Compostela
Score7062
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm41 mm to 223 mm
Dry months20
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
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
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPisaSantiago de Compostela
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 4 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 65 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
2 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 15 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 50 m
€83-161
PSA · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€114-174
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 10 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 2026-09, 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

MeasurePisaSantiago 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
Elevation4 m260 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaSantiago de Compostela
City population88,737100,965
People per km²479459
Museums within 10 km276
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre2938
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.