VacationSelector

Santiago or Seattle?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Santiago
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

SantiagoSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
SantiagoSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km0100
Coast distance89 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 3 points.3
SantiagoSeattle
Score7275
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3171,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Santiago leads by 9 points.9
SantiagoSeattle
Score4536
Museums within 10 km8728
Museums within 2 km of centre3017
Share of museums within 2 km %3461
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 4 points.4
SantiagoSeattle
Score6157
Drinking venues within 4 km912873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre542696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5980
Nightclubs within 4 km11234
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 12 points.12
SantiagoSeattle
Score5240
Protected land share 50 km %179
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km88 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Santiago leads by 3 points.3
SantiagoSeattle
Score4946
Tourist attractions within 2 km1217
Park area within 2 km88 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 4 points.4
SantiagoSeattle
Score4852
Notable places within 2 km6276
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 38 points.38
SantiagoSeattle
Score8143
Price level global46.2100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 24 points.24
SantiagoSeattle
Score8561
Monthly daytime high14.3 °C to 27.7 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 87 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months83
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11
Seattle
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiagoSeattle
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 15 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
8 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
9 h 55 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
3 h 50 m
€204-286
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 50 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
4 h 35 m
€325-346
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
9 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
8 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 35 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
CancunCUN
8 h 5 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureSantiagoSeattle
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132911
Elevation575 m40 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoSeattle
City population6,257,516737,015
People per km²7,4681,996
Museums within 10 km5427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6478
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.