VacationSelector

Santiago de Compostela or The Hague?

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.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Santiago de CompostelaThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
Santiago de CompostelaThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km034
Coast distance26 km3 km
Water distance26 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 22 points.22
Santiago de CompostelaThe Hague
Score4870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2343
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 18 points.18
Santiago de CompostelaThe Hague
Score4462
Museums within 10 km1646
Museums within 2 km of centre1426
Share of museums within 2 km %8857
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 10 points.10
Santiago de CompostelaThe Hague
Score3646
Drinking venues within 4 km306511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre268288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8856
Nightclubs within 4 km1319
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 8 points.8
Santiago de CompostelaThe Hague
Score4654
Protected land share 50 km %118
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9256
Park area within 2 km109 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 29 points.29
Santiago de CompostelaThe Hague
Score2756
Tourist attractions within 2 km210
Park area within 2 km109 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 12 points.12
Santiago de CompostelaThe Hague
Score4254
Notable places within 2 km4486
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 13 points.13
Santiago de CompostelaThe Hague
Score7158
Price level global60.879.2
Daily budget€122€181
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 8 points.8
Santiago de CompostelaThe Hague
Score6254
Monthly daytime high11.3 °C to 25 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 223 mm42 mm to 85 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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
3
3
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromSantiago de CompostelaThe Hague
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 5 m
€198-297
RTM · 16 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
RTM · 16 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 50 m
€274-294
1 stop
RTM · 16 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
RTM · 16 km
SevillaSVQ
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RTM · 16 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 10 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RTM · 16 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 CompostelaThe Hague
Official languageSpanishDutch
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 or 911
Elevation260 m1 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaThe Hague
City population100,965548,320
People per km²4595,589
Museums within 10 km654
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre3877
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.