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The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art
The White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

Photos: Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Thessaloniki by Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Santa Fe or Thessaloniki?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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, Thessaloniki 55: Thessaloniki leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Santa Fe 62, Thessaloniki 77: Thessaloniki leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Santa Fe 66, Thessaloniki 73: Thessaloniki leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Santa Fe 22, Thessaloniki 76: Thessaloniki leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santa Fe 80, Thessaloniki 66: Santa Fe leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Santa Fe 70, Thessaloniki 74: Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Santa Fe 45, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Santa Fe 40, Thessaloniki 60: Thessaloniki leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Santa Fe 62, Thessaloniki 50: Santa Fe leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Santa Fe 30, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santa Fe 55, Thessaloniki 52: Santa Fe leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santa Fe 55, Thessaloniki 33: Santa Fe leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santa Fe and Thessaloniki.

Your match

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

Santa Fe
49match

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

Thessaloniki
Best match
61match

Wins on nightlife and beaches 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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Santa FeThessaloniki

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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanta FeThessaloniki
Official language-Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,134 m6 m
Main airportSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureSanta FeThessaloniki
City population87,505309,617
People per km²64516,042
Museums within 10 km1032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.