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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head
The terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago
SantiagoThe terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía

Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Santiago by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

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

Choose Santiago for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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. Liverpool 22, Santiago 12: Liverpool leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Liverpool 48, Santiago 60: Santiago leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Liverpool 64, Santiago 52: Liverpool leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Liverpool 66, Santiago 60: Liverpool leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Liverpool 52, Santiago 83: Santiago leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Liverpool 64, Santiago 70: Santiago leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Liverpool 55, Santiago 57: Santiago leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Liverpool and Santiago are level on 68.
Shopping & style. Liverpool and Santiago are level on 52.
Affordability. Liverpool 50, Santiago 58: Santiago leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Liverpool 66, Santiago 55: Liverpool leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Liverpool 22, Santiago 37: Santiago leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Liverpool and Santiago.

Your match

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

Liverpool
52match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Santiago
Best match
55match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Santiago in July

14 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
52 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool 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. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLiverpoolSantiago
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation70 m575 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolSantiago
City population513,4416,257,516
People per km²4,5927,468
Museums within 10 km3154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. 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.

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.