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Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Nice 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 Nice for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • prices
  • nightlife

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. Nice 75, Valparaiso 36: Nice leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Nice 66, Valparaiso 50: Nice leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Nice 64, Valparaiso 62: Nice leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Nice 47, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nice 80, Valparaiso 60: Nice leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Nice 87, Valparaiso 63: Nice leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Nice 57, Valparaiso 33: Nice leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Nice 74, Valparaiso 44: Nice leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Nice 55, Valparaiso 30: Nice leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Nice 35, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nice 45, Valparaiso 38: Nice leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nice 40, Valparaiso 18: Nice leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nice and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Nice
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNiceValparaiso
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation0 m21 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNiceValparaiso
City population357,737296,655
People per km²4,9756,180
Museums within 10 km1717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.