VacationSelector

Santiago de Compostela or Zurich?

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, 2 points apart

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on places to eat 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 CompostelaZurich
Beaches & swimming. Santiago de Compostela and Zurich are level on 0.
Santiago de CompostelaZurich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km023
Coast distance26 km632 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 19 points.19
Santiago de CompostelaZurich
Score4867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2330
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 12 points.12
Santiago de CompostelaZurich
Score4456
Museums within 10 km1676
Museums within 2 km of centre1437
Share of museums within 2 km %8849
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 18 points.18
Santiago de CompostelaZurich
Score3654
Drinking venues within 4 km306676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre268553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8882
Nightclubs within 4 km1374
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 9 points.9
Santiago de CompostelaZurich
Score4637
Protected land share 50 km %1116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km109 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Zurich leads by 9 points.9
Santiago de CompostelaZurich
Score2736
Tourist attractions within 2 km28
Park area within 2 km109 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 17 points.17
Santiago de CompostelaZurich
Score4259
Notable places within 2 km44119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 36 points.36
Santiago de CompostelaZurich
Score7135
Price level global60.8110.5
Daily budget€122€248
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 9 points.9
Santiago de CompostelaZurich
Score6253
Monthly daytime high11.3 °C to 25 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 223 mm60 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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Daytime high, °C
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
3
3
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

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). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromSantiago de CompostelaZurich
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 9 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
SevillaSVQ
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
Las PalmasLPA
2 h 45 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 10 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BSL · 81 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 CompostelaZurich
Official languageSpanishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation260 m408 m
Main airportSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiago de CompostelaZurich
City population100,965452,421
People per km²4595,147
Museums within 10 km663
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3878
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. 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.