VacationSelector

Santiago de Compostela or Sorrento?

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 sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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 CompostelaSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
Santiago de CompostelaSorrento
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km078
Coast distance26 km0 km
Water distance26 km0 km
Places to eat. Santiago de Compostela leads by 29 points.29
Santiago de CompostelaSorrento
Score4819
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km235
Museums & heritage. Santiago de Compostela leads by 7 points.7
Santiago de CompostelaSorrento
Score4437
Museums within 10 km167
Museums within 2 km of centre144
Share of museums within 2 km %8857
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Santiago de Compostela leads by 14 points.14
Santiago de CompostelaSorrento
Score3622
Drinking venues within 4 km306179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre268131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8873
Nightclubs within 4 km132
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 23 points.23
Santiago de CompostelaSorrento
Score4623
Protected land share 50 km %117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9242
Park area within 2 km109 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Santiago de Compostela leads by 22 points.22
Santiago de CompostelaSorrento
Score275
Tourist attractions within 2 km22
Park area within 2 km109 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Santiago de Compostela leads by 32 points.32
Santiago de CompostelaSorrento
Score4210
Notable places within 2 km447
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 3 points.3
Santiago de CompostelaSorrento
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 11 points.11
Santiago de CompostelaSorrento
Score6273
Monthly daytime high11.3 °C to 25 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 223 mm17 mm to 159 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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
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
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4

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). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiago de CompostelaSorrento
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
SevillaSVQ
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 10 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
NAP · 30 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 CompostelaSorrento
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 m50 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaSorrento
City population100,96515,407
People per km²4591,541
Museums within 10 km65
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre3811
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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.