VacationSelector

Paris or Santiago?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

ParisSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Paris and Santiago are level on 0.
ParisSantiago
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km20
Coast distance149 km89 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Paris leads by 18 points.18
ParisSantiago
Score9072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,7321,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3332
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 31 points.31
ParisSantiago
Score7645
Museums within 10 km18587
Museums within 2 km of centre6530
Share of museums within 2 km %3534
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Paris leads by 27 points.27
ParisSantiago
Score8861
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4559
Nightclubs within 4 km201112
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 4 points.4
ParisSantiago
Score4852
Protected land share 50 km %2817
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km82 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 26 points.26
ParisSantiago
Score7549
Tourist attractions within 2 km8912
Park area within 2 km82 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 46 points.46
ParisSantiago
Score9448
Notable places within 2 km86562
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 19 points.19
ParisSantiago
Score6281
Price level global73.746.2
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 19 points.19
ParisSantiago
Score6685
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months18
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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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisSantiago
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
13 h 45 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
2 h 0 m
€140-179
SCL · 14 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 45 m
€806-1124
CDG · 22 km
3 h 45 m
€267-313
SCL · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€444-536
CDG · 22 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
LimaLIM
12 h 45 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€152-378
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
SydneySYD, WSI
20 h 35 m
no fares
CDG · 22 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

MeasureParisSantiago
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
Elevation27 m575 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisSantiago
City population2,103,7786,257,516
People per km²19,9607,468
Museums within 10 km25154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre16964

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.