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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Nashville 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 Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Nashville 14, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Valparaiso 50: Nashville leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Valparaiso 56: Nashville leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Valparaiso 63: Valparaiso leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Valparaiso 33: Nashville leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Valparaiso 44: Valparaiso leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, Valparaiso 30: Nashville leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Valparaiso 38: Nashville leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Valparaiso 18: Nashville leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Nashville
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Wins on live music and the arts and families with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
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. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNashvilleValparaiso
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation182 m21 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNashvilleValparaiso
City population689,447296,655
People per km²5066,180
Museums within 10 km1217
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). 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. 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.

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.