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The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Budapest by Perituss, CC0; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Budapest 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 Budapest for

  • wellness
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Budapest 25, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Budapest 63, Valparaiso 50: Budapest leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Budapest 80, Valparaiso 62: Budapest leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Budapest 78, Valparaiso 56: Budapest leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Budapest 58, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Budapest 68, Valparaiso 63: Budapest leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Budapest 62, Valparaiso 33: Budapest leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Budapest 78, Valparaiso 44: Budapest leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Budapest 55, Valparaiso 30: Budapest leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Budapest 62, Valparaiso 60: Budapest leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Budapest 76, Valparaiso 38: Budapest leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Budapest 98, Valparaiso 18: Budapest leads by 80 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Budapest and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Budapest
Best match
67match

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

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBudapestValparaiso
Official languageHungarianSpanish
CurrencyForint (HUF)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation117 m21 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestValparaiso
City population1,675,777296,655
People per km²3,1916,180
Museums within 10 km8117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.