VacationSelector

Santiago de Compostela or Split?

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 places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Split
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and 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.

Santiago de CompostelaSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
Santiago de CompostelaSplit
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km087
Coast distance26 km0 km
Water distance26 km0 km
Places to eat. Santiago de Compostela leads by 10 points.10
Santiago de CompostelaSplit
Score4838
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2315
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 8 points.8
Santiago de CompostelaSplit
Score4452
Museums within 10 km1618
Museums within 2 km of centre1416
Share of museums within 2 km %8889
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Split leads by 5 points.5
Santiago de CompostelaSplit
Score3641
Drinking venues within 4 km306379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre268263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8869
Nightclubs within 4 km1323
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 8 points.8
Santiago de CompostelaSplit
Score4638
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9262
Park area within 2 km109 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Santiago de Compostela leads by 1 points.1
Santiago de CompostelaSplit
Score2726
Tourist attractions within 2 km29
Park area within 2 km109 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Santiago de Compostela and Split are level on 42.
Santiago de CompostelaSplit
Score4242
Notable places within 2 km4443
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 9 points.9
Santiago de CompostelaSplit
Score7180
Price level global60.848.5
Daily budget€122€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 7 points.7
Santiago de CompostelaSplit
Score6269
Monthly daytime high11.3 °C to 25 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 223 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
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
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Split
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiago de CompostelaSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 5 m
€108-177
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
BaselBSL
2 h 15 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 5 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 35 m
€247-298
1 stop
SPU · 12 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 2026-09 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 CompostelaSplit
Official languageSpanishCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation260 m0 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaSplit
City population100,965160,577
People per km²459
Museums within 10 km611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre3831
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.