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The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art
Vilnius Cathedral, Vilnius
VilniusVilnius Cathedral

Photos: Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Vilnius by Scotch Mist, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Santa Fe or Vilnius?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Vilnius for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Vilnius’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, Vilnius 17: Vilnius leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Santa Fe 62, Vilnius 50: Santa Fe leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Santa Fe and Vilnius are level on 66.
Nightlife. Santa Fe 22, Vilnius 46: Vilnius leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santa Fe 80, Vilnius 52: Santa Fe leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Santa Fe 70, Vilnius 60: Santa Fe leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Santa Fe 45, Vilnius 44: Santa Fe leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Santa Fe 40, Vilnius 68: Vilnius leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Santa Fe 62, Vilnius 38: Santa Fe leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Santa Fe 30, Vilnius 64: Vilnius leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santa Fe 55, Vilnius 54: Santa Fe leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santa Fe 55, Vilnius 34: Santa Fe leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santa Fe and Vilnius.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Santa Fe
49match

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

Vilnius
49match

Wins on prices and getting around 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
14 hdaylight a day

Vilnius in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
90 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanta FeVilnius
Official language-Lithuanian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,134 m98 m
Main airportSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSanta FeVilnius
City population87,505619,405
People per km²6451,545
Museums within 10 km1031
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03

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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. 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.