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India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Delhi 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 Delhi for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • prices

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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. Delhi 4, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Delhi 84, Valparaiso 50: Delhi leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Delhi 85, Valparaiso 62: Delhi leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Delhi 44, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Delhi 20, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Delhi 68, Valparaiso 63: Delhi leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Delhi 32, Valparaiso 33: Valparaiso leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Delhi 55, Valparaiso 44: Delhi leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Delhi 78, Valparaiso 30: Delhi leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Delhi 90, Valparaiso 60: Delhi leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Delhi 55, Valparaiso 38: Delhi leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Delhi 25, Valparaiso 18: Delhi leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Delhi and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Delhi
Best match
53match

Wins on shopping and food and drink with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Delhi in July

36 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
190 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. Delhi: 1991-2020 normals, New Delhi / Safdarjung (9.4 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDelhiValparaiso
Official languageHindi, EnglishSpanish
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation221 m21 m
Main airportIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDelhiValparaiso
City population26,495,000296,655
People per km²18,9626,180
Museums within 10 km2317
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.