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The cathedral above the old town, Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de CompostelaThe cathedral above the old town
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Santiago de Compostela by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Santiago de Compostela or Yokohama?

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

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • shopping
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Santiago de Compostela 68, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Santiago de Compostela 70, Yokohama 55: Santiago de Compostela leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Santiago de Compostela 45, Yokohama 44: Santiago de Compostela leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santiago de Compostela 62, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Santiago de Compostela 72, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Santiago de Compostela 42, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 44 points.
Getting around. Santiago de Compostela 70, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Santiago de Compostela 35, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Santiago de Compostela 64, Yokohama 55: Santiago de Compostela leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santiago de Compostela 40, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santiago de Compostela 42, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santiago de Compostela and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Santiago de Compostela
54match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on families and shopping 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaYokohama
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation260 m24 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaYokohama
City population100,9653,757,630
People per km²4598,585
Museums within 10 km638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. 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.

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.