VacationSelector

Santiago de Compostela or Siena?

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

Your match

Santiago de Compostela
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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 CompostelaSiena
Beaches & swimming. Santiago de Compostela and Siena are level on 0.
Santiago de CompostelaSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance26 km64 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Santiago de Compostela leads by 16 points.16
Santiago de CompostelaSiena
Score4832
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2311
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 27 points.27
Santiago de CompostelaSiena
Score4471
Museums within 10 km1655
Museums within 2 km of centre1451
Share of museums within 2 km %8893
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Santiago de Compostela leads by 19 points.19
Santiago de CompostelaSiena
Score3617
Drinking venues within 4 km306142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre268119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8884
Nightclubs within 4 km131
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 27 points.27
Santiago de CompostelaSiena
Score4619
Protected land share 50 km %113
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km109 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Siena leads by 4 points.4
Santiago de CompostelaSiena
Score2731
Tourist attractions within 2 km213
Park area within 2 km109 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 8 points.8
Santiago de CompostelaSiena
Score4250
Notable places within 2 km4469
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 3 points.3
Santiago de CompostelaSiena
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 2 points.2
Santiago de CompostelaSiena
Score6264
Monthly daytime high11.3 °C to 25 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 223 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months00
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
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
3
3
Siena
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). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiago de CompostelaSiena
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
SevillaSVQ
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 35 m
€114-174
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 50 m
€83-161
PSA · 86 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 10 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 86 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 CompostelaSiena
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation260 m322 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaSiena
City population100,96552,812
People per km²459446
Museums within 10 km629
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre3825
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.