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Santiago or Seville?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Santiago
55
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Seville
54
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

SantiagoSeville
Beaches & swimming. Santiago and Seville are level on 0.
SantiagoSeville
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance89 km65 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 6 points.6
SantiagoSeville
Score7266
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3171,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 11 points.11
SantiagoSeville
Score4556
Museums within 10 km8750
Museums within 2 km of centre3040
Share of museums within 2 km %3480
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Seville leads by 1 points.1
SantiagoSeville
Score6162
Drinking venues within 4 km9121,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre542679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5962
Nightclubs within 4 km11257
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 15 points.15
SantiagoSeville
Score5237
Protected land share 50 km %178
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 16 points.16
SantiagoSeville
Score4965
Tourist attractions within 2 km1247
Park area within 2 km88 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 7 points.7
SantiagoSeville
Score4855
Notable places within 2 km6292
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 10 points.10
SantiagoSeville
Score8171
Price level global46.260.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 10 points.10
SantiagoSeville
Score8575
Monthly daytime high14.3 °C to 27.7 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 87 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months85
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
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11
Seville
6
7
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
8
6
5

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). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiagoSeville
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 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 2026-09 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

MeasureSantiagoSeville
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132112
Elevation575 m18 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoSeville
City population6,257,516689,423
People per km²7,4684,896
Museums within 10 km5424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6452

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.