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Santiago de Compostela or Vienna?

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.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
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 CompostelaVienna
Beaches & swimming. Santiago de Compostela and Vienna are level on 0.
Santiago de CompostelaVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance26 km10,000 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 29 points.29
Santiago de CompostelaVienna
Score4877
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3361,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2337
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 37 points.37
Santiago de CompostelaVienna
Score4481
Museums within 10 km16192
Museums within 2 km of centre14110
Share of museums within 2 km %8857
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 38 points.38
Santiago de CompostelaVienna
Score3674
Drinking venues within 4 km3061,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2681,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8856
Nightclubs within 4 km13108
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 14 points.14
Santiago de CompostelaVienna
Score4632
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km109 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 42 points.42
Santiago de CompostelaVienna
Score2769
Tourist attractions within 2 km246
Park area within 2 km109 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 33 points.33
Santiago de CompostelaVienna
Score4275
Notable places within 2 km44287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 12 points.12
Santiago de CompostelaVienna
Score7159
Price level global60.876.9
Daily budget€122€160
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 1 points.1
Santiago de CompostelaVienna
Score6261
Monthly daytime high11.3 °C to 25 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 223 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
3
3
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiago de CompostelaVienna
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 45 m
€152-183
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 10 m
€123-211
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
SevillaSVQ
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 10 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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 CompostelaVienna
Official languageSpanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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
Elevation260 m151 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaVienna
City population100,9652,028,289
People per km²4594,890
Museums within 10 km6152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre38113
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.