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Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Innsbruck 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 Innsbruck for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • beaches

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. Innsbruck 20, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Innsbruck 40, Valparaiso 50: Valparaiso leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Innsbruck 58, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Innsbruck 38, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Innsbruck 96, Valparaiso 60: Innsbruck leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Innsbruck 72, Valparaiso 63: Innsbruck leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Innsbruck 62, Valparaiso 33: Innsbruck leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Innsbruck 78, Valparaiso 44: Innsbruck leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Innsbruck 38, Valparaiso 30: Innsbruck leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Innsbruck 38, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Innsbruck 45, Valparaiso 38: Innsbruck leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Innsbruck 45, Valparaiso 18: Innsbruck leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Innsbruck and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Innsbruck
Best match
53match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Innsbruck in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInnsbruckValparaiso
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageSpanish
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
Elevation574 m21 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckValparaiso
City population132,499296,655
People per km²1,2636,180
Museums within 10 km2817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.