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The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art
Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome

Photos: Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Santa Fe or Savannah?

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 Santa Fe for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Savannah for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Savannah’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. Santa Fe 5, Savannah 55: Savannah leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Santa Fe 62, Savannah 58: Santa Fe leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Santa Fe 66, Savannah 68: Savannah leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Santa Fe 22, Savannah 52: Savannah leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santa Fe 80, Savannah 48: Santa Fe leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Santa Fe 70, Savannah 60: Santa Fe leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Santa Fe 45, Savannah 50: Savannah leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Santa Fe 40, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Santa Fe 62, Savannah 42: Santa Fe leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Santa Fe 30, Savannah 35: Savannah leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santa Fe 55, Savannah 40: Santa Fe leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santa Fe 55, Savannah 40: Santa Fe leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santa Fe and Savannah.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Santa Fe
49match

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

Savannah
51match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Santa FeSavannah

Where the figures come from

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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. Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre). Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanta FeSavannah
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,134 m15 m
Main airportSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSanta FeSavannah
City population87,505147,780
People per km²645524
Museums within 10 km1019
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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.