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Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
The terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago
SantiagoThe terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía

Photos: Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License; Santiago by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Palermo or Santiago?

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 Palermo for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Santiago for

  • getting around
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago’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. Palermo 77, Santiago 12: Palermo leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Palermo 81, Santiago 60: Palermo leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Palermo 80, Santiago 52: Palermo leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Palermo 58, Santiago 60: Santiago leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palermo 72, Santiago 83: Santiago leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Palermo 84, Santiago 70: Palermo leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Palermo 44, Santiago 57: Santiago leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Palermo 50, Santiago 68: Santiago leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Palermo 44, Santiago 52: Santiago leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Palermo 63, Santiago 58: Palermo leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palermo 62, Santiago 55: Palermo leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palermo 30, Santiago 37: Santiago leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palermo and Santiago.

Your match

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

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Santiago
55match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Palermo in July

29 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Santiago in July

14 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
52 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Palermo 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.

Palermo's sunshine is measured 67 km from the centre, at Ustica.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalermoSantiago
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCFL230 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
Elevation14 m575 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoSantiago
City population630,1676,257,516
People per km²3,9247,468
Museums within 10 km4254
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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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.