Planner
The Camino from Sarria in 5 stages
This is a calculated split, not the only possible one: it comes from the real route and the hostels on record at each stop.
This split comes from a calculation, not from a fixed guess: it takes the real route between Sarria and Santiago de Compostela, and the hostels on record at each stop, with their bed count and opening season. Asked for 5 days, this is what comes out.
It isn't the traditional split. The classic Sarria–Santiago walk divides the stretch into five fixed days, with a 28.5 km stage into Arzúa that pilgrims and guidebooks alike single out as the longest and hardest of the five — more on the last 100 km and its crowds. This planner tries to keep any single day from ballooning past the rest, so this split doesn't stop in Arzúa at all: the last stop before it is Boente, a village with fewer beds, and no day here reaches that spike. It isn't a correction of the traditional split: it's an alternative. If you'd rather walk the classic day-by-day stages, that is still the tried-and-tested way to cover this stretch.
| Day | Stretch | Km | Where to sleep |
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| 1 | Sarria → Portomarín | 22.2 km |
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| 2 | Portomarín → Palas de Rei | 25.1 km |
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| 3 | Palas de Rei → Boente | 19.6 km |
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| 4 | Boente → Santa Irene | 24.3 km |
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| 5 | Santa Irene → Santiago de Compostela | 23.9 km |
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Total: 115.1 km · 5 stages
Hostel data from OpenStreetMap (ODbL), for guidance only. Checked on 2026-08-25.
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