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The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
BerlinThe Brandenburg Gate
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Berlin by Claudia Solano, Pexels License; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Berlin or Santa Fe?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Berlin for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Berlin’s own page.

Choose Santa Fe for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Berlin 38, Santa Fe 5: Berlin leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Berlin 66, Santa Fe 62: Berlin leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Berlin 86, Santa Fe 66: Berlin leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Berlin 98, Santa Fe 22: Berlin leads by 76 points.
Nature & outdoors. Berlin 50, Santa Fe 80: Santa Fe leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Berlin 66, Santa Fe 70: Santa Fe leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Berlin 76, Santa Fe 45: Berlin leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Berlin 82, Santa Fe 40: Berlin leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Berlin 68, Santa Fe 62: Berlin leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Berlin 48, Santa Fe 30: Berlin leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Berlin 90, Santa Fe 55: Berlin leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Berlin and Santa Fe are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Berlin and Santa Fe.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Berlin
Best match
69match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Berlin in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBerlinSanta Fe
Official languageGerman-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation34 m2,134 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinSanta Fe
City population3,700,57787,505
People per km²4,153645
Museums within 10 km15710
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.