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Santiago de Compostela or Stockholm?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 CompostelaStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
Santiago de CompostelaStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km073
Coast distance26 km0 km
Water distance26 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 28 points.28
Santiago de CompostelaStockholm
Score4876
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3361,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2336
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 25 points.25
Santiago de CompostelaStockholm
Score4469
Museums within 10 km1674
Museums within 2 km of centre1447
Share of museums within 2 km %8864
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 28 points.28
Santiago de CompostelaStockholm
Score3664
Drinking venues within 4 km3061,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre268689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8863
Nightclubs within 4 km13106
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 5 points.5
Santiago de CompostelaStockholm
Score4641
Protected land share 50 km %117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9277
Park area within 2 km109 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 30 points.30
Santiago de CompostelaStockholm
Score2757
Tourist attractions within 2 km223
Park area within 2 km109 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 37 points.37
Santiago de CompostelaStockholm
Score4279
Notable places within 2 km44357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 14 points.14
Santiago de CompostelaStockholm
Score7157
Price level global60.880.3
Daily budget€122€169
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 9 points.9
Santiago de CompostelaStockholm
Score6253
Monthly daytime high11.3 °C to 25 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 223 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months05
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
3
3
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiago de CompostelaStockholm
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 25 m
€90-234
ARN · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 15 m
€126-131
ARN · 36 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 50 m
€121-161
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 35 m
€193
ARN · 36 km
SevillaSVQ
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
Las PalmasLPA
2 h 45 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 10 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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 CompostelaStockholm
Official languageSpanishSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation260 m22 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaStockholm
City population100,965984,748
People per km²4595,260
Museums within 10 km6266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre3881
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.