Your Camino de Santiago Budget

How Much to Budget when Walking the Camino

This is a bit of a complex question and depends on a few things.

1. Which route you are walking, as the more popular ones can be a bit more expensive.
2. How far you plan to walk.  More days = more cost obviously.
3. What type of accommodation you would like to use.
4. What type of food you plan to eat.  Cooking your own meals v restaurant meals.
5. And incidentals such as coffees, snacks, SIM data and so on.

The Main Camino Budget Items

I won’t include costs for getting to the Camino, as that will vary depending on where you live!

But this is a spreadsheet that I created some time ago, and you can download it under tools and update it as required.

Down below, I’ll include the original video explaining how it all works.

But in this image, I have updated all the costs based on my Camino in 2023.

Basically, on the spreadsheet that you can download (link below) you just need to update the estimated Camino days, exchange rate, and current unit costs as shown here and then select the % of Albergues, Pilgrim dinners and simple lunches.  Only enter number in the yellow boxes.  Everything else is calculated for you.  example, if you select 90% Albergues, then 10% will be costed as Hotel.  If you select 90% as Pilgrim Menu Dinners, then 10% will be selected as a la carte.  90% as simple lunch, then 10% will be Menu del Dia.   Tip!   You don’t need a Pilgrim Menu and a Menu del Dia on the same day.  Both big Meals.   I should really update this spreadsheet with a dinner option being a snack/tapas.   But you get the Idea.   You could make that change yourself.   Just change Dinner a la Carte to snack dinner for example and maybe put 8 euros.

Camino Budget Planner

I hope all that makes sense.

You can download the camino budget planner here:

And the video explaining it is here: