VacationSelector

Santiago de Compostela or Seattle?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

Santiago de CompostelaSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
Santiago de CompostelaSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km0100
Coast distance26 km1 km
Water distance26 km1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 27 points.27
Santiago de CompostelaSeattle
Score4875
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3361,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2335
Museums & heritage. Santiago de Compostela leads by 8 points.8
Santiago de CompostelaSeattle
Score4436
Museums within 10 km1628
Museums within 2 km of centre1417
Share of museums within 2 km %8861
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 21 points.21
Santiago de CompostelaSeattle
Score3657
Drinking venues within 4 km306873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre268696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8880
Nightclubs within 4 km1334
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 6 points.6
Santiago de CompostelaSeattle
Score4640
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9280
Park area within 2 km109 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 19 points.19
Santiago de CompostelaSeattle
Score2746
Tourist attractions within 2 km217
Park area within 2 km109 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 10 points.10
Santiago de CompostelaSeattle
Score4252
Notable places within 2 km4476
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 28 points.28
Santiago de CompostelaSeattle
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 1 points.1
Santiago de CompostelaSeattle
Score6261
Monthly daytime high11.3 °C to 25 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 223 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months03
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
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
3
3
Seattle
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiago de CompostelaSeattle
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 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

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaSeattle
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation260 m40 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaSeattle
City population100,965737,015
People per km²4591,996
Museums within 10 km627
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3878
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.