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Prague or Santiago?

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

Your match

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Santiago
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

PragueSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Prague and Santiago are level on 0.
PragueSantiago
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km70
Coast distance10,000 km89 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 3 points.3
PragueSantiago
Score7572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8661,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2932
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 27 points.27
PragueSantiago
Score7245
Museums within 10 km13887
Museums within 2 km of centre10030
Share of museums within 2 km %7234
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Prague leads by 16 points.16
PragueSantiago
Score7761
Drinking venues within 4 km2,248912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6559
Nightclubs within 4 km123112
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 7 points.7
PragueSantiago
Score4552
Protected land share 50 km %1217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km183 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 26 points.26
PragueSantiago
Score7549
Tourist attractions within 2 km5412
Park area within 2 km183 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 28 points.28
PragueSantiago
Score7648
Notable places within 2 km31062
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 6 points.6
PragueSantiago
Score7581
Price level global55.246.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 24 points.24
PragueSantiago
Score6185
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months78
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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueSantiago
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
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 2026-09 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

MeasurePragueSantiago
Official languageCzechSpanish
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)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
Elevation235 m575 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 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

MeasurePragueSantiago
City population1,397,8806,257,516
People per km²2,8177,468
Museums within 10 km8854
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8964

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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). 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.