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The cathedral above the old town, Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de CompostelaThe cathedral above the old town
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Santiago de Compostela by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Santiago de Compostela or Venice?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Santiago de Compostela for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago de Compostela’s own page.

Choose Venice for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Santiago de Compostela 32, Venice 56: Venice leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Santiago de Compostela 68, Venice 60: Santiago de Compostela leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Santiago de Compostela 70, Venice 94: Venice leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Santiago de Compostela 45, Venice 27: Santiago de Compostela leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santiago de Compostela 62, Venice 45: Santiago de Compostela leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Santiago de Compostela 72, Venice 86: Venice leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Santiago de Compostela 42, Venice 45: Venice leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Santiago de Compostela 70, Venice 68: Santiago de Compostela leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Santiago de Compostela 35, Venice 57: Venice leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Santiago de Compostela 64, Venice 20: Santiago de Compostela leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santiago de Compostela 40, Venice 62: Venice leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santiago de Compostela 42, Venice 40: Santiago de Compostela leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santiago de Compostela and Venice.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Santiago de Compostela
54match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Venice
55match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Santiago de Compostela in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Venice has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaVenice
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation260 m2 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaVenice
City population100,965250,369
People per km²459602
Museums within 10 km652
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.