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Santiago de Compostela or Toronto?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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 CompostelaToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
Santiago de CompostelaToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km058
Coast distance26 km533 km
Water distance26 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 34 points.34
Santiago de CompostelaToronto
Score4882
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3362,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2339
Museums & heritage. Santiago de Compostela leads by 1 points.1
Santiago de CompostelaToronto
Score4443
Museums within 10 km1635
Museums within 2 km of centre1425
Share of museums within 2 km %8871
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 33 points.33
Santiago de CompostelaToronto
Score3669
Drinking venues within 4 km3061,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre268966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8864
Nightclubs within 4 km13103
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 20 points.20
Santiago de CompostelaToronto
Score4626
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km109 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 30 points.30
Santiago de CompostelaToronto
Score2757
Tourist attractions within 2 km223
Park area within 2 km109 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 19 points.19
Santiago de CompostelaToronto
Score4261
Notable places within 2 km44128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 17 points.17
Santiago de CompostelaToronto
Score7154
Price level global60.884
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 7 points.7
Santiago de CompostelaToronto
Score6255
Monthly daytime high11.3 °C to 25 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 223 mm51 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
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
Toronto
No sunshine record

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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiago de CompostelaToronto
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 15 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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 CompostelaToronto
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation260 m76 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaToronto
City population100,9652,794,356
People per km²4594,434
Museums within 10 km632
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre38102
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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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. 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.