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The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bogota or Valparaiso?

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 Bogota for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • prices

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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. Bogota 5, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Bogota 66, Valparaiso 50: Bogota leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Bogota 68, Valparaiso 62: Bogota leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Bogota 72, Valparaiso 56: Bogota leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bogota 64, Valparaiso 60: Bogota leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Bogota 52, Valparaiso 63: Valparaiso leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Bogota 45, Valparaiso 33: Bogota leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bogota 36, Valparaiso 44: Valparaiso leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Bogota 52, Valparaiso 30: Bogota leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Bogota 77, Valparaiso 60: Bogota leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bogota 64, Valparaiso 38: Bogota leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bogota 28, Valparaiso 18: Bogota leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bogota and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Bogota
Best match
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on beaches 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.

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso 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. Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBogotaValparaiso
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number123Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation2,582 m21 m
Main airportEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBogotaValparaiso
City population8,034,649296,655
People per km²5,0926,180
Museums within 10 km3017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.