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Santiago de Compostela or Tromso?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Santiago de Compostela
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 CompostelaTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
Santiago de CompostelaTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km014
Coast distance26 km0 km
Water distance26 km0 km
Places to eat. Santiago de Compostela leads by 24 points.24
Santiago de CompostelaTromso
Score4824
Restaurants within 2 km of centre33685
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2316
Museums & heritage. Santiago de Compostela leads by 21 points.21
Santiago de CompostelaTromso
Score4423
Museums within 10 km1610
Museums within 2 km of centre148
Share of museums within 2 km %8880
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Santiago de Compostela leads by 29 points.29
Santiago de CompostelaTromso
Score367
Drinking venues within 4 km30667
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre26861
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8891
Nightclubs within 4 km135
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 35 points.35
Santiago de CompostelaTromso
Score4611
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %9265
Park area within 2 km109 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Santiago de Compostela leads by 13 points.13
Santiago de CompostelaTromso
Score2714
Tourist attractions within 2 km29
Park area within 2 km109 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Santiago de Compostela leads by 14 points.14
Santiago de CompostelaTromso
Score4228
Notable places within 2 km4420
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 17 points.17
Santiago de CompostelaTromso
Score7154
Price level global60.885.1
Daily budget€122€203
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 29 points.29
Santiago de CompostelaTromso
Score6233
Monthly daytime high11.3 °C to 25 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 223 mm56 mm to 128 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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D
Daytime high, °C
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
3
3
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiago de CompostelaTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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 CompostelaTromso
Official languageSpanishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation260 m20 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaTromso
City population100,96579,943
People per km²45932
Museums within 10 km68
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3823
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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.