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Camino del Norte in 10 days

10 walking days and 11 nights, from Irún to Santiago de Compostela. 10 days' walking, 11 nights, averaging 22.5 km a day. The shortest day is 18 km, the longest 25. It's an example, not a rule. Move any of these towns in the planner and everything after it shifts.

225 km
Total
22.5 km
Average day
25.4 km
Longest · into Gernika
18.1 km
Shortest · into Pobeña

Where you sleep, day by day

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DayWalkSleep inPlaces to stay
Night 1startIrún5 places to stay
Day 123.8kmSan Sebastián24 km from the start13 places to stay
Day 222.4kmZarautz46 km from the start10 places to stay
Day 322.9kmDeba69 km from the start3 places to stay
Day 423.9kmMarkina-Xemein93 km from the start4 places to stay
Day 525.4kmGernika118 km from the start3 places to stay
Day 620.3kmLezama139 km from the start3 places to stay
Day 723.5kmBarakaldo162 km from the start2 places to stay
Day 818.1kmPobeña180 km from the start1 place to stay
Day 923.1kmIslares203 km from the start3 places to stay
Day 1022.0kmLaredo225 km from the start10 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 234 towns on the Camino del Norte 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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