VacationSelector

London or Santiago?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Santiago
55
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

LondonSantiago
Beaches & swimming. London and Santiago are level on 0.
LondonSantiago
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km470
Coast distance43 km89 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 16 points.16
LondonSantiago
Score8872
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3171,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4032
Museums & heritage. London leads by 27 points.27
LondonSantiago
Score7245
Museums within 10 km14887
Museums within 2 km of centre4930
Share of museums within 2 km %3334
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. London leads by 34 points.34
LondonSantiago
Score9561
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4659
Nightclubs within 4 km312112
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 12 points.12
LondonSantiago
Score4052
Protected land share 50 km %1617
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 26 points.26
LondonSantiago
Score7549
Tourist attractions within 2 km8512
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. London leads by 41 points.41
LondonSantiago
Score8948
Notable places within 2 km64962
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 27 points.27
LondonSantiago
Score5481
Price level global84.946.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 22 points.22
LondonSantiago
Score6385
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months18
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonSantiago
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
13 h 45 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 0 m
€140-179
SCL · 14 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 45 m
€267-313
SCL · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
BogotaBOG
10 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
5 h 40 m
€340-367
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
11 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
SydneySYD, WSI
20 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
14 h 0 m
€1,325-1342
1 stop
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

MeasureLondonSantiago
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
Elevation4 m575 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonSantiago
City population8,799,7286,257,516
People per km²5,5987,468
Museums within 10 km21554
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre11664

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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). 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.