statistics

September has become the most popular month to start from St Jean Pied de Port. A couple of years ago I remember reading accounts of 400+ pilgrims per day setting out from SJPdP, and the statistics from the Pilgrims Office in St Jean bear this out. I snipped a couple of charts As you can...

For those interested, the Oficina Peregrino has published its statistics for April In April, 977 pilgrims arrived in Santiago. This is a significant increase compared to March, when there were only 194. Not surprisingly, a majority was Spanish (783), of whom a majority was Galician (666). For...

For those interested. The Officina Peregrino has published its statistics about arrivals in March. It turns out that 194 pilgrims arrived in Santiago, (not surpisingsly) the majority of those being Spanish, and (not surprisingly) the majority of those being Galician. As some of the 'Officina...

Hi guys, I've shared the full statistics from 2004 based on Pilgrims' Office in this post but as you may know, it's not enough. I'm very passionated about analytics and I really appreciated if you can help me with this survey regarding motivations, caminos (an number of them), preparation...

Hello everyone, I have published a webpage with statistics based on figures from the Pilgrim's Office since 2004 that can be explored interactively by seeing their evolution over time by months. Would you like to try them and tell me what would you add / remove / modify to improve them? Of...

Although the 2020 full year statistics are not yet available from the Pilgrim Office, all the monthly reports from 2020 are, so I have used these to create an analysis of how the pandemic affected the camino in 2020. The biggest takeaway is this: For those interested in more information, the...

A couple of weeks ago while doing some research for this Holy Year article (spoiler alert: it pretty much gives away the answers but not the order), I was looking at the popularity of various routes and that seems like a good topic for our next quiz! According to the 2019 pilgrim's office...

For a bit of fun: Do you know, or can you guess, which are the SIX most popular starting points for the Camino Francés (based on 2019 whole-year pilgrim office statistics)? Three or four are fairly obvious, of course, but there are a few contenders for the last couple of spots. Can you guess...

My past three walks on the Camino have all been in March. Weather was brisk, the number of pilgrims was fairly low, and most alberques were open so there was never a problem finding a bed. I had hoped to return this coming March but reluctantly realize this is unlikely to happen. Currently it...

https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/santiago/santiago/2020/09/01/cifra-peregrinos-agosto-duplica-julio-queda-detras-2019/00031598980971275317586.htm At 19,812 compostelas given out in August, twice as many as in July, but only a third the number of August 2019.

https://www.elcorreogallego.es/santiago/compostelas-para-3000-peregrinos-este-fin-de-semana-BE4341210

http://oficinadelperegrino.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/peregrinaciones2019.pdf

One of the ways I moonlight is to offer free advice to first-time pilgrims on Facebook groups, and recently I had a chap tell me that he wanted his camino (Frances from SJPdP) to be solitary, so he'd decided to go off-season in April! I had to stifle a chuckle to myself, as anyone who's walking...

La Voz de Galicia has noted a special reception for the 300,000th pilgrim this year to receive a Compostela. A landmark figure which has been reached two weeks earlier than in 2018...

Does anyone have information about the pilgrim office website? Their monthly statistics page seems to have no updates since July.

From Compostela issued per 100 peregrino/a Spanish 47 English 15 German 9 Italian 8 Portuguese 6 French 3 Korean 2 Polish 1.5 Dutch 1.2...

Does anyone have any idea why the daily and monthly statistics are not being updated?

I would really like to walk this Camino. I guess not being so popular (at least today) it would be wise to walk in the peak season (which I guess will be between July and September). Anyway, I would like to know if, even in the peak season, there are a minimum number of pilgrims. It's not too...

Sorry I'm being dense and can't quite seem to find stats for daily issuance of Compostelas in Santiago. I can find aggregated monthly stats for 2018 on the Oficina site but I'm wanting to find out more specifically when numbers start to drop off in order to plan my walk later in the year. If...

Hi all - I once had a neat graph that displayed monthly pilgrim numbers from St Jean but cannot find it now. Have done a lot of searching - I know it or similar exists! - but have failed. Can't get a link from the St Jean pilgrim office and the cathedral seems only to show those arriving in...