VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Santiago?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Santiago
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

Fort LauderdaleSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
Fort LauderdaleSantiago
Score840
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km70
Coast distance0 km89 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 27 points.27
Fort LauderdaleSantiago
Score4572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3711,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1832
Museums & heritage. Santiago leads by 25 points.25
Fort LauderdaleSantiago
Score2045
Museums within 10 km1487
Museums within 2 km of centre630
Share of museums within 2 km %4334
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 27 points.27
Fort LauderdaleSantiago
Score3461
Drinking venues within 4 km259912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5659
Nightclubs within 4 km18112
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 29 points.29
Fort LauderdaleSantiago
Score8152
Protected land share 50 km %2017
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Santiago leads by 30 points.30
Fort LauderdaleSantiago
Score1949
Tourist attractions within 2 km212
Park area within 2 km45 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Santiago leads by 48 points.48
Fort LauderdaleSantiago
Score048
Notable places within 2 km262
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 38 points.38
Fort LauderdaleSantiago
Score4381
Price level global10046.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 9 points.9
Fort LauderdaleSantiago
Score7685
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months08
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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleSantiago
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
9 h 5 m
€511-537
MIA · 41 km
2 h 0 m
€140-179
SCL · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 45 m
€267-313
SCL · 14 km
MontevideoMVD
9 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 15 m
€224-241
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
LimaLIM
5 h 40 m
€312-417
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
BogotaBOG
3 h 35 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
5 h 40 m
€340-367
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
8 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
4 h 5 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleSantiago
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation11 m575 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleSantiago
City population182,7606,257,516
People per km²1,8297,468
Museums within 10 km654
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2564
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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). 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.