VacationSelector

Rome 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

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on 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.

RomeSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
RomeSantiago de Compostela
Score330
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance24 km26 km
Water distance24 km26 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 12 points.12
RomeSantiago de Compostela
Score6048
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,241336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1023
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 40 points.40
RomeSantiago de Compostela
Score8444
Museums within 10 km16116
Museums within 2 km of centre7914
Share of museums within 2 km %4988
Unesco sites within 50 km72
Nightlife. Rome leads by 38 points.38
RomeSantiago de Compostela
Score7436
Drinking venues within 4 km2,022306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre912268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4588
Nightclubs within 4 km8513
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 24 points.24
RomeSantiago de Compostela
Score7046
Protected land share 50 km %1911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7892
Park area within 2 km172 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 59 points.59
RomeSantiago de Compostela
Score8627
Tourist attractions within 2 km1262
Park area within 2 km172 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 57 points.57
RomeSantiago de Compostela
Score9942
Notable places within 2 km1,12544
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 3 points.3
RomeSantiago de Compostela
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 9 points.9
RomeSantiago de Compostela
Score7162
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 mm41 mm to 223 mm
Dry months30
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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
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
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeSantiago de Compostela
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
2 h 35 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 30 m
€58-92
FCO · 23 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 15 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 0 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
CIA · 14 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 2026-08 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

MeasureRomeSantiago 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
Elevation21 m260 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeSantiago de Compostela
City population2,748,109100,965
People per km²2,135459
Museums within 10 km1776
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km72
Distinct cuisines in the centre6538
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.