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Granada 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, 2 points apart

Granada
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Santiago
55
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

GranadaSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Granada and Santiago are level on 0.
GranadaSantiago
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance48 km89 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 5 points.5
GranadaSantiago
Score6772
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8721,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3432
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 3 points.3
GranadaSantiago
Score4845
Museums within 10 km2887
Museums within 2 km of centre2630
Share of museums within 2 km %9334
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 9 points.9
GranadaSantiago
Score5261
Drinking venues within 4 km637912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7859
Nightclubs within 4 km46112
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 11 points.11
GranadaSantiago
Score6352
Protected land share 50 km %2717
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %96100
Park area within 2 km46 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 7 points.7
GranadaSantiago
Score5649
Tourist attractions within 2 km6012
Park area within 2 km46 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Santiago leads by 4 points.4
GranadaSantiago
Score4448
Notable places within 2 km5062
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 10 points.10
GranadaSantiago
Score7181
Price level global60.846.2
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 11 points.11
GranadaSantiago
Score7485
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months78
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
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. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaSantiago
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 97 km
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
14 h 25 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

MeasureGranadaSantiago
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCF230 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
Elevation693 m575 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaSantiago
City population233,9756,257,516
People per km²2,6597,468
Museums within 10 km1954
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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.