Open data on the Camino in Galicia
Everything this site cross-checks, for anyone to use: journalists, associations, researchers, other websites and AI assistants. The albergues are under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA), the same licence as the Xunta’s register: you may reuse them, commercially too, crediting “Camino Ahora (caminoahora.com)” and sharing your work under the same licence. The pilgrim figures come from the Pilgrim’s Office: I do not license them; always cite it.
Updated 01/11/2026
This year in short
559,078 pilgrims have received the Compostela in 2026 up to 01/11/2026 (344,253 from abroad, 214,825 Spanish). Most walked Caminos: Camino Francés (239,556), Camino Portugués (112,178), Camino Portugués por la Costa (109,654), Camino Inglés (31,265). Countries: España (214,825), Estados Unidos (50,749), Italia (43,614), Portugal (24,088), Alemania (24,067), Reino Unido (15,221). Starting points: Sarria (164,288), Tui (45,582), Ferrol (30,286), Oporto (29,386), Oporto Costa (28,622).
Pilgrims per month
| Month | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 2.230 | 2.907 | 2.485 |
| Feb | 3.056 | 3.537 | 3.523 |
| Mar | 22.937 | 14.068 | 17.823 |
| Apr | 42.290 | 54.642 | 56.217 |
| May | 72.825 | 78.648 | 80.044 |
| Jun | 66.446 | 74.043 | 79.399 |
| Jul | 64.772 | 67.013 | 71.541 |
| Aug | 79.023 | 77.095 | 84.793 |
| Sep | 75.442 | 81.533 | 91.127 |
| Oct | 55.260 | 62.856 | 72.126 |
| Nov | 11.472 | 11.072 | – |
| Dec | 3.404 | 3.303 | – |
| Total | 499.157 | 530.717 | 559.078 |
Figures of the Pilgrim’s Reception Office (Compostelas issued), read from its public report on 01/11/2026: by month, by Camino, by country, by starting point, on foot or by bike, and the last 90 days. Years 2024, 2025, 2026.
Albergues on the Caminos in Galicia
The 450 pilgrim albergues on the Caminos in Galicia, from the Xunta’s Register of Tourism Businesses (read on 01/11/2026), with coordinates, beds, phone, kilometre of the Camino, and for the 74 public-network ones the official check-in hours, temporary closures and the opening season published by the Federation or the albergue itself.
| Download | Format | |
|---|---|---|
| albergues.json | JSON | 252 KB |
| albergues.csv | CSV | 100 KB |
| albergues.geojson | GEOJSON | 281 KB |
Official pilgrim statistics
| Download | Format | |
|---|---|---|
| peregrinos.json | JSON | 20 KB |
| peregrinos-mes.csv | CSV | 1 KB |
| peregrinos-camino.csv | CSV | 2 KB |
| peregrinos-pais.csv | CSV | 3 KB |
| peregrinos-salida.csv | CSV | 2 KB |
Transport timetables
Bus (Xunta, bus.gal) and train (Renfe, open GTFS) timetables from Santiago airport to the start of each Camino and back, read on 01/11/2026 for a weekday, a Saturday and a Sunday.
| Download | Format | |
|---|---|---|
| transporte.json | JSON | 262 KB |
Charts for your website or article
Copy the code and the chart updates itself every week with the official data. I only ask that the line “Source: Camino Ahora” and its link be kept.
Peregrinos por mes (Compostelas) · ver
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Peregrinos por Camino en 2026 · ver
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Puntos de salida más usados en 2026 · ver
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Where each dataset comes from and what it does not say
| Dataset | Source | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Albergues (albergues.json, .csv, .geojson) | Register of Tourism Companies and Activities of the Xunta de Galicia; admission hours and closures of the public network: caminodesantiago.gal (Turismo de Galicia), read on each albergue's official page. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Pilgrims (peregrinos.json and CSV) | Public report of the Pilgrim Office (Santiago Cathedral), read on 01/11/2026. Camino Ahora only reorganises it. | Not ours and not licensed by us: always cite the Pilgrim Office. |
| Transport (transporte.json) | Bus (bus.gal, Xunta) and train (Renfe, open GTFS) timetables from Santiago airport, read on the date stated in the file itself. | No licence of its own: check the terms of each source. |
What these data do not say: they do not include the price of private albergues or whether beds are left; they are a snapshot of the stated date and may change without notice. An albergue in the register does not guarantee it is open today. Pilgrim figures count Compostelas issued, not everyone who walks.
What is official and what is our own work: the register data, the public network's hours and the statistics belong to the sources cited; the cross-referencing, the links to each page and the checking dates are Camino Ahora's.
Field dictionary for albergues.json
id_reat | Identifier in the Xunta tourism register |
nombre, tipo | Name and category from the register |
red_xunta | True if it belongs to the Xunta public albergue network (€10 a night, no booking) |
municipio, lugar, direccion | Location according to the register |
lat, lon | Coordinates |
plazas, telefono | Beds and phone according to the register |
camino, caminos, km_camino | Camino it belongs to and the kilometre where it stands |
horario_admision | Public network only: admission hours from its official page |
cierre_desde, cierre_hasta | Temporary closure published on the official page; empty if none |
apertura, fecha_apertura, fuente_apertura | Opening season published by the federation or the albergue itself, with its date and source |
ficha_xunta, url_caminoahora | Link to the official page and to our page for the albergue |
Writing about the Camino? There is a press kit with citable figures and how to cite them (in Spanish).
For AI assistants
The file llms.txt summarises the site and llms-full.txt contains the full answers (public albergues with hours, FAQs, statistics) in plain text.
Licence and how to cite
Data under CC BY-SA 4.0. Suggested citation: “Camino Ahora (caminoahora.com), with data from the Xunta de Galicia and the Pilgrim’s Office, read on 01/11/2026”. The source data is public; what this site adds is the cross-checking and the date. If you find an error, write to me.