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The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Catania 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 Catania for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Valparaiso for

Valparaiso does not lead in any category we score.

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. Catania 72, Valparaiso 36: Catania leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Catania 77, Valparaiso 50: Catania leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Catania and Valparaiso are level on 62.
Nightlife. Catania 60, Valparaiso 56: Catania leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Catania 83, Valparaiso 60: Catania leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Catania 84, Valparaiso 63: Catania leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Catania 50, Valparaiso 33: Catania leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Catania 48, Valparaiso 44: Catania leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Catania 42, Valparaiso 30: Catania leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Catania and Valparaiso are level on 60.
Live music & performing arts. Catania 55, Valparaiso 38: Catania leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Catania 30, Valparaiso 18: Catania leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Catania and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Catania
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCataniaValparaiso
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCFL230 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
Elevation7 m21 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 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

MeasureCataniaValparaiso
City population311,584296,655
People per km²1,7046,180
Museums within 10 km2517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.