Photos: Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.
Santa Fe or Tel Aviv?
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
- wellness
- prices
What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’s own page.
Choose Tel Aviv for
- beaches
- nightlife
- getting around
What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santa Fe and Tel Aviv.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.
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
Tel Aviv in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
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). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).
Before you go
| Measure | Santa Fe | Tel Aviv |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | - | Hebrew |
| Currency | US Dollar (USD) | New Israeli Sheqel (ILS) |
| Sockets | AB120 V, 60 Hz | CHM230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer | UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer |
| Emergency number | 911 | Police 100, fire 102 |
| Elevation | 2,134 m | 5 m |
| Main airport | Santa Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations | Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 13 days | - |
By the numbers
| Measure | Santa Fe | Tel Aviv |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 87,505 | 467,875 |
| People per km² | 645 | 8,998 |
| Museums within 10 km | 10 | 98 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 0 | 2 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | - | 7 months |
Where else could you go?
Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Santa Fe or Tel Aviv somewhere new.