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Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

New York 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 New York for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • prices
  • 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. New York 50, Valparaiso 36: New York leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. New York 92, Valparaiso 50: New York leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. New York 89, Valparaiso 62: New York leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. New York 97, Valparaiso 56: New York leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. New York 55, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 5 points.
Day trips. New York 68, Valparaiso 63: New York leads by 5 points.
Good for families. New York 70, Valparaiso 33: New York leads by 37 points.
Getting around. New York 82, Valparaiso 44: New York leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. New York 97, Valparaiso 30: New York leads by 67 points.
Affordability. New York 12, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. New York 99, Valparaiso 38: New York leads by 61 points.
Wellness & relaxation. New York 42, Valparaiso 18: New York leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: New York and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

New York
Best match
71match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

New York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
22 °Csea
15 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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNew YorkValparaiso
Official language-Spanish
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 m21 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 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

MeasureNew YorkValparaiso
City population8,804,190296,655
People per km²7,2566,180
Museums within 10 km15717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.