VacationSelector

Santiago de Compostela or Tallinn?

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 nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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 CompostelaTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
Santiago de CompostelaTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km018
Coast distance26 km0 km
Water distance26 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 14 points.14
Santiago de CompostelaTallinn
Score4862
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2339
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 18 points.18
Santiago de CompostelaTallinn
Score4462
Museums within 10 km1671
Museums within 2 km of centre1457
Share of museums within 2 km %8880
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
Santiago de CompostelaTallinn
Score3646
Drinking venues within 4 km306462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre268370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8880
Nightclubs within 4 km1343
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 15 points.15
Santiago de CompostelaTallinn
Score4631
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9253
Park area within 2 km109 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 24 points.24
Santiago de CompostelaTallinn
Score2751
Tourist attractions within 2 km220
Park area within 2 km109 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 20 points.20
Santiago de CompostelaTallinn
Score4262
Notable places within 2 km44135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 1 points.1
Santiago de CompostelaTallinn
Score7170
Price level global60.862.4
Daily budget€122€143
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 14 points.14
Santiago de CompostelaTallinn
Score6248
Monthly daytime high11.3 °C to 25 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 223 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months04
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
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tallinn
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
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
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). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromSantiago de CompostelaTallinn
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 15 m
€194-214
1 stop
HEL · 99 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
Las PalmasLPA
2 h 45 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 35 m
€114-174
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 99 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 CompostelaTallinn
Official languageSpanishEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation260 m28 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaTallinn
City population100,965457,572
People per km²4592,871
Museums within 10 km615
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3863
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. 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.