VacationSelector

New York or Santiago?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

New YorkSantiago
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
New YorkSantiago
Score640
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance1 km89 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 23 points.23
New YorkSantiago
Score9572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,0321,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3832
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 15 points.15
New YorkSantiago
Score6045
Museums within 10 km11987
Museums within 2 km of centre3130
Share of museums within 2 km %2634
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New York leads by 28 points.28
New YorkSantiago
Score8961
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4859
Nightclubs within 4 km192112
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 13 points.13
New YorkSantiago
Score3952
Protected land share 50 km %417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km134 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 23 points.23
New YorkSantiago
Score7249
Tourist attractions within 2 km3712
Park area within 2 km134 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km73
Sights concentration. New York leads by 26 points.26
New YorkSantiago
Score7448
Notable places within 2 km26862
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 38 points.38
New YorkSantiago
Score4381
Price level global10046.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 27 points.27
New YorkSantiago
Score5885
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months08
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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkSantiago
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
10 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 0 m
€140-179
SCL · 14 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
2 h 45 m
€239-267
LGA · 13 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
4 h 40 m
€374-446
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
MadridMAD
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
3 h 45 m
€267-313
SCL · 14 km
LimaLIM
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
SydneySYD, WSI
19 h 30 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureNew YorkSantiago
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation25 m575 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkSantiago
City population8,804,1906,257,516
People per km²7,2567,468
Museums within 10 km15754
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre13264
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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. 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. 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.