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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
The terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago
SantiagoThe terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Santiago by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Deer Valley or Santiago?

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 Deer Valley for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Santiago for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago’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. Deer Valley 10, Santiago 12: Santiago leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Santiago 60: Santiago leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Santiago 52: Santiago leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Santiago 60: Santiago leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Santiago 83: Deer Valley leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Santiago 70: Santiago leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Santiago 57: Deer Valley leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Santiago 68: Santiago leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Santiago 52: Santiago leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Santiago 58: Santiago leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Santiago 55: Santiago leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Santiago 37: Deer Valley leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Santiago.

Your match

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

Deer Valley
36match

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

Santiago
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Santiago in July

14 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
52 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
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

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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. Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleySantiago
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation2,474 m575 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleySantiago
City population-6,257,516
People per km²-7,468
Museums within 10 km054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.