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Florence or Santiago?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Florence
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Santiago
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

FlorenceSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Florence and Santiago are level on 0.
FlorenceSantiago
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance78 km89 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 13 points.13
FlorenceSantiago
Score5972
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2991,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1532
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 37 points.37
FlorenceSantiago
Score8245
Museums within 10 km13287
Museums within 2 km of centre9330
Share of museums within 2 km %7034
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 5 points.5
FlorenceSantiago
Score5661
Drinking venues within 4 km818912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7359
Nightclubs within 4 km34112
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceSantiago
Score3852
Protected land share 50 km %917
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km86 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 3 points.3
FlorenceSantiago
Score5249
Tourist attractions within 2 km3012
Park area within 2 km86 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 27 points.27
FlorenceSantiago
Score7548
Notable places within 2 km29262
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 13 points.13
FlorenceSantiago
Score6881
Price level global64.946.2
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 17 points.17
FlorenceSantiago
Score6885
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months28
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceSantiago
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 85 km
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
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

MeasureFlorenceSantiago
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
Elevation50 m575 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceSantiago
City population360,9306,257,516
People per km²3,5287,468
Museums within 10 km14054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6264

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.