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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
The terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago
SantiagoThe terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Santiago by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Florence 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 Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Santiago for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • 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. Florence 14, Santiago 12: Florence leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Santiago 60: Florence leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Santiago 52: Florence leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Santiago 60: Santiago leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Santiago 83: Santiago leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Santiago 70: Florence leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Santiago 57: Santiago leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Santiago 68: Florence leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Santiago 52: Florence leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Santiago 58: Santiago leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Santiago 55: Florence leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Santiago 37: Florence leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Santiago.

Your match

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

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Santiago
55match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine 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

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre46 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre67 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 km14154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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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). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.