VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Santiago?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Santiago
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CopenhagenSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenSantiago
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance1 km89 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenSantiago
Score7372
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3732
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 30 points.30
CopenhagenSantiago
Score7545
Museums within 10 km8387
Museums within 2 km of centre5130
Share of museums within 2 km %6134
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenSantiago
Score6761
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5859
Nightclubs within 4 km64112
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenSantiago
Score5052
Protected land share 50 km %517
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %39100
Park area within 2 km138 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenSantiago
Score7149
Tourist attractions within 2 km5412
Park area within 2 km138 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 26 points.26
CopenhagenSantiago
Score7448
Notable places within 2 km27362
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 29 points.29
CopenhagenSantiago
Score5281
Price level global87.846.2
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 30 points.30
CopenhagenSantiago
Score5585
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months38
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenSantiago
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
MadridMAD
3 h 5 m
€122-160
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureCopenhagenSantiago
Official languageDanishSpanish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCEFK230 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
Elevation14 m575 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenSantiago
City population667,0996,257,516
People per km²7,3397,468
Museums within 10 km7254
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8264
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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). 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.