VacationSelector

Rome or Santiago?

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

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

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

Santiago
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

RomeSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
RomeSantiago
Score330
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance24 km89 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 12 points.12
RomeSantiago
Score6072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,2411,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1032
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 39 points.39
RomeSantiago
Score8445
Museums within 10 km16187
Museums within 2 km of centre7930
Share of museums within 2 km %4934
Unesco sites within 50 km70
Nightlife. Rome leads by 13 points.13
RomeSantiago
Score7461
Drinking venues within 4 km2,022912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre912542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4559
Nightclubs within 4 km85112
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 18 points.18
RomeSantiago
Score7052
Protected land share 50 km %1917
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %78100
Park area within 2 km172 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 37 points.37
RomeSantiago
Score8649
Tourist attractions within 2 km12612
Park area within 2 km172 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 51 points.51
RomeSantiago
Score9948
Notable places within 2 km1,12562
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 13 points.13
RomeSantiago
Score6881
Price level global64.946.2
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 14 points.14
RomeSantiago
Score7185
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months38
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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeSantiago
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
13 h 45 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
2 h 0 m
€140-179
SCL · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 45 m
€893-1016
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
3 h 45 m
€267-313
SCL · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€136-291
FCO · 23 km
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€176-218
FCO · 23 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
SydneySYD, WSI
19 h 55 m
no fares
FCO · 23 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

MeasureRomeSantiago
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
Elevation21 m575 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 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

MeasureRomeSantiago
City population2,748,1096,257,516
People per km²2,1357,468
Museums within 10 km17754
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km70
Distinct cuisines in the centre6564
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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. 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. 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.