VacationSelector

Santiago de Compostela or West Palm Beach?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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 CompostelaWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
Santiago de CompostelaWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance26 km0 km
Water distance26 km0 km
Places to eat. Santiago de Compostela leads by 11 points.11
Santiago de CompostelaWest Palm Beach
Score4837
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2314
Museums & heritage. Santiago de Compostela leads by 27 points.27
Santiago de CompostelaWest Palm Beach
Score4417
Museums within 10 km165
Museums within 2 km of centre143
Share of museums within 2 km %8860
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Santiago de Compostela leads by 16 points.16
Santiago de CompostelaWest Palm Beach
Score3620
Drinking venues within 4 km306132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre26890
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8868
Nightclubs within 4 km1310
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 23 points.23
Santiago de CompostelaWest Palm Beach
Score4669
Protected land share 50 km %1115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9245
Park area within 2 km109 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Santiago de Compostela leads by 6 points.6
Santiago de CompostelaWest Palm Beach
Score2721
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km109 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Santiago de Compostela leads by 30 points.30
Santiago de CompostelaWest Palm Beach
Score4212
Notable places within 2 km448
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 28 points.28
Santiago de CompostelaWest Palm Beach
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 13 points.13
Santiago de CompostelaWest Palm Beach
Score6275
Monthly daytime high11.3 °C to 25 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 223 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
3
3
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiago de CompostelaWest Palm Beach
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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 CompostelaWest Palm Beach
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation260 m6 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaWest Palm Beach
City population100,965117,415
People per km²459786
Museums within 10 km64
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3818
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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.