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The Colosseum, Rome
RomeThe Colosseum
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Rome 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 Rome for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Rome 50, Valparaiso 36: Rome leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Rome 82, Valparaiso 50: Rome leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Rome 99, Valparaiso 62: Rome leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Rome 58, Valparaiso 56: Rome leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rome 58, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Rome 92, Valparaiso 63: Rome leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Rome 50, Valparaiso 33: Rome leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Rome 60, Valparaiso 44: Rome leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Rome 72, Valparaiso 30: Rome leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Rome 38, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rome 68, Valparaiso 38: Rome leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rome 40, Valparaiso 18: Rome leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rome and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Rome
Best match
64match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °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

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRomeValparaiso
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 m21 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeValparaiso
City population2,748,109296,655
People per km²2,1356,180
Museums within 10 km17817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km71
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.