One way to walk it

Camino de Invierno in 12 days

12 walking days and 13 nights, from Ponferrada to Santiago de Compostela. 12 days' walking, 13 nights, averaging 20.5 km a day. The shortest day is 10 km, the longest 26. It's an example, not a rule. Move any of these towns in the planner and everything after it shifts.

246 km
Total
20.5 km
Average day
26.5 km
Longest · into Monforte de Lemos
10 km
Shortest · into Santiago de Compostela at the end of the Camino Sanabrés

Where you sleep, day by day

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DayWalkSleep inPlaces to stay
Day 126.2kmLas Médulas29 km from the start4 places to stay
Day 226.4kmO Barco de Valdeorras56 km from the start12 places to stay
Day 314.1kmA Rúa de Valdeorras70 km from the start4 places to stay
Day 422.0kmQuiroga92 km from the start7 places to stay
Day 526.5kmMonforte de Lemos118 km from the start15 places to stay
Day 622.0kmSan Paio de Diomondi140 km from the start1 place to stay
Day 713.5kmLucenza154 km from the start1 place to stay
Day 820.5kmRodeiro174 km from the start2 places to stay
Day 921.6kmLalín196 km from the start5 places to stay
Day 1023.7kmDornelas220 km from the start1 place to stay
Day 1119.1kmA Susana239 km from the start1 place to stay
Day 1210.0kmSantiago de Compostela at the end of the Camino Sanabrés249 km from the start26 places to stay

Days over 30 km are marked in red. Every town links to its own page with the albergues, the history and what the road into it is like. There are 96 towns on the Camino de Invierno with somewhere to sleep in most of them, so none of these choices is forced.

Programa MOVES IIIMinisterio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico — IDAEXunta de GaliciaInstituto Enerxético de Galicia (INEGA)Financiado por la Unión Europea — NextGenerationEUPlan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia

Esta entidad ha sido beneficiaria de una ayuda del Programa de incentivos a la movilidad eficiente y sostenible (MOVES III), gestionado por la Xunta de Galicia a través del Instituto Enerxético de Galicia (INEGA) en el marco del Real Decreto 266/2021, y cofinanciada por la Unión Europea — NextGenerationEU, dentro del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.

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