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Santiago de Compostela or Tirana?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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 CompostelaTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
Santiago de CompostelaTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance26 km26 km
Water distance26 km26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 7 points.7
Santiago de CompostelaTirana
Score4855
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2322
Museums & heritage. Santiago de Compostela leads by 19 points.19
Santiago de CompostelaTirana
Score4425
Museums within 10 km1612
Museums within 2 km of centre148
Share of museums within 2 km %8867
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 22 points.22
Santiago de CompostelaTirana
Score3658
Drinking venues within 4 km306945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre268683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8872
Nightclubs within 4 km1329
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 3 points.3
Santiago de CompostelaTirana
Score4649
Protected land share 50 km %1111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %9283
Park area within 2 km109 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 25 points.25
Santiago de CompostelaTirana
Score2752
Tourist attractions within 2 km221
Park area within 2 km109 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 11 points.11
Santiago de CompostelaTirana
Score4253
Notable places within 2 km4483
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 13 points.13
Santiago de CompostelaTirana
Score7184
Price level global60.842.6
Daily budget€122€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 5 points.5
Santiago de CompostelaTirana
Score6267
Monthly daytime high11.3 °C to 25 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 223 mm43 mm to 172 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
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tirana
10
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
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3

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). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiago de CompostelaTirana
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 35 m
€114-174
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 15 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 30 m
€97-142
TIA · 13 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 CompostelaTirana
Official languageSpanishAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation260 m110 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaTirana
City population100,965389,323
People per km²4599,314
Museums within 10 km611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3846
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.