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Portofino and its bay from the hillside, Portofino
PortofinoPortofino and its bay from the hillside
The cathedral above the old town, Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de CompostelaThe cathedral above the old town

Photos: Portofino by Michal Osmenda, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Santiago de Compostela by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Portofino 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 Portofino for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Santiago de Compostela for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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. Portofino 60, Santiago de Compostela 32: Portofino leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Portofino 36, Santiago de Compostela 68: Santiago de Compostela leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Portofino 22, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Portofino 14, Santiago de Compostela 45: Santiago de Compostela leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Portofino 77, Santiago de Compostela 62: Portofino leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Portofino 76, Santiago de Compostela 72: Portofino leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Portofino 33, Santiago de Compostela 42: Santiago de Compostela leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Portofino 50, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Portofino 29, Santiago de Compostela 35: Santiago de Compostela leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Portofino 9, Santiago de Compostela 64: Santiago de Compostela leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Portofino 7, Santiago de Compostela 40: Santiago de Compostela leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Portofino and Santiago de Compostela are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Portofino and Santiago de Compostela.

Your match

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

Portofino
38match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
Best match
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.

Portofino in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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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PortofinoSantiago de Compostela

Where the figures come from

Portofino's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Genova / Sestri.

Portofino has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Portofino: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (31 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePortofinoSantiago 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
Elevation20 m260 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)32 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortofinoSantiago de Compostela
City population355100,965
People per km²142459
Museums within 10 km146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.