About Camino.Today
A Camino de Santiago app and guide, made by someone who walks it.
Camino.Today started as the app I wanted while walking: the whole route on one map, the climb ahead of me, the weather for the hour I would actually be out in it, and a bed at the end of the day. This website is the open part of it — everything you can read before you download anything.
Who makes it
I have walked the Camino many times and on different routes, and I build and maintain the app. Every route description, every blog post and every design decision on this site is mine; there is no content team and nothing here is bought or syndicated. Where I have not walked a stretch myself, I say so rather than pretending otherwise.
Where the data comes from
Routes. The lines you see on the maps are GPS tracks of the waymarked paths, cleaned and simplified for the web. Distances, elevation gain and the towns along the way are computed from those tracks, not copied from guidebooks — which is why our numbers sometimes differ from a printed guide by a kilometre or two.
Lodgings. Thousands of albergues, hostels, pensions, hotels and rural houses, each with its own page: prices, beds, opening season, contacts and position on the map. The records come from the same database the app uses, and every page shows the date it was last updated so you can judge how fresh it is. Photos come from the lodging's own listing, credited on each page.
Maps. Mapbox, with OpenStreetMap data underneath.
An albergue closed, a price changed, a waymark moved? The app has a "Report a problem" button on every lodging card, and the fastest way to reach me directly is Instagram. Corrections from pilgrims on the ground are the main reason the data stays usable.
What it costs
The app is free to use. You can walk a whole Camino with it without paying anything: the routes, the map, the towns, the lodgings and the weather are all there, and the free version plans your next stages as you go, a few days at a time.
Season Pass is the yearly subscription. It removes the limit on stages, so instead of planning the next couple of days you can lay out the entire Camino before you leave — every stage from your first town to Santiago, with its distance, elevation profile, hourly weather and the albergues along it, and then change any of it while you walk.
Or leave a donation in the app, once, at whatever size you like — pilgrim, hiker or wanderer. No feature is locked behind it; it is simply a way to support the project if it has been useful to you.
Either way the money goes to the same place: the servers and the map, weather and hosting bills that this site and the app run on, and the time to keep the lodging data current and to build the next thing. It is also what keeps Camino.Today free of advertising — there is not a single ad in the app or on this site, and there will not be. A pilgrim looking for a bed at the end of a thirty-kilometre day should not have to scroll past somebody's banner to find one, and the more people the free version reaches, the better the whole thing works.
Start walking
Download the app, pick your Camino and lay out the first stages tonight — it takes about a minute, and you can change every one of them later. Everything on this site is the same data you will have in your pocket on the way, only there it works without a signal.
