Camino de Santiago map: ten routes, and the 38.7 km most pilgrims share

By August Frederik Kramer · Last updated 1 October 2026

Here are ten Camino routes on one map, each drawn from its own track rather than sketched. Of those ten, 7 end at the cathedral in Santiago, and they do not arrive the way most maps suggest, as separate lines meeting at a dot. For the last 38.7 km, from Arzúa, the Camino Francés, the Camino del Norte and the Camino Primitivo are the same path, and 291,346 of the 530,722 pilgrims the Pilgrim’s Office registered in 2025 came in on it: 55%.

Each colour is one route and each dot is where it starts. The lines are the walking tracks themselves, simplified only below what the eye can see at this size, so a bend on the map is a bend on the ground. Gold marks the stretch that three routes share. Where each route begins, and which suits a first Camino, is in where the Camino de Santiago starts and which Camino route to choose.

Every route on the map

The distances and days are our stage plan, the same figures each route page prints. The route name opens its page; the guide is the longer version.

Where the routes meet

Zoom in on the last stretch and the lines stop being separate. The Primitivo meets the Francés at Melide, 52.9 km from the cathedral, and walks the rest of the way on it. The Norte joins at Arzúa, 38.7 km out. From there to Santiago, three routes are one path: the same waymarks, the same bars, the same people. How each of them gets there is in the Camino Primitivo and Camino del Norte guides.

38.7 km is 2 days on our plan, Arzúa to O Pedrouzo and on to Santiago, and shorter than a marathon (42.2 km). It is the one stretch on this map where you can meet people who set out from the Pyrenees, from the Basque coast and from Oviedo on the same morning. The 100 km a Compostela needs reach much further back, as the last 100 km guide shows.

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Which way pilgrims come in

The Pilgrim’s Office counts every pilgrim it registers by the route they walked. Group the 2025 count by the way each route arrives and the gold path is the busiest door into the city by a distance: more than half of everyone, on 38.7 km of track.

The second door is the Portugués: 190,307 pilgrims between its inland and coastal versions, coming up from the south on a line that does not touch the others until the city. Everything else on the map together, from the Vía de la Plata to the Invierno, came to 18,868. Who walks, and when, is in how many pilgrims walk the Camino.

The Pilgrim’s Office count for 2025. “Every other route” is what is left of the year’s total after the named routes, so the four bars add up to all 530,722.

Three lines that do not end in Santiago

Not every line on the map points at the cathedral. The Camino Finisterre starts there and walks 85.0 km in 5 days to the sea at Finisterre. The Camino Mozárabe runs 419.0 km in 19 days from Granada to Mérida, where it meets the Vía de la Plata and you carry on north on that. And the Camino Lebaniego is 66.5 km in 3 days from San Vicente de la Barquera to Santo Toribio de Liébana, a pilgrimage of its own.

Route lines: OpenStreetMap contributors, corrected by us. Coast and borders: Natural Earth. Where routes meet: the town nearest the point where two tracks come together. Pilgrims: the Pilgrim’s Office, Santiago.

Common questions

How many Camino de Santiago routes are there?

Dozens, if you count every local way that ends at the cathedral. This map shows the 10 that most pilgrims mean when they name a route; 7 of them end in Santiago. The Camino Francés is the most walked.

Where do the Camino routes meet?

The Camino Primitivo joins the Camino Francés at Melide, 52.9 km from Santiago, and the Camino del Norte joins at Arzúa, 38.7 km out. The Inglés and the Portugués do not join the Francés at all; they come into the city on their own lines.

Can I print this map?

Yes. The poster version is a free PNG, 1000 by 1500 pixels, made for printing and sharing. Please keep caminantes.co on it.

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