VacationSelector

Santiago or Split?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Split
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

SantiagoSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
SantiagoSplit
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km087
Coast distance89 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 34 points.34
SantiagoSplit
Score7238
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,317268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3215
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 7 points.7
SantiagoSplit
Score4552
Museums within 10 km8718
Museums within 2 km of centre3016
Share of museums within 2 km %3489
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 20 points.20
SantiagoSplit
Score6141
Drinking venues within 4 km912379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre542263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5969
Nightclubs within 4 km11223
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 14 points.14
SantiagoSplit
Score5238
Protected land share 50 km %179
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km88 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Santiago leads by 23 points.23
SantiagoSplit
Score4926
Tourist attractions within 2 km129
Park area within 2 km88 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Santiago leads by 6 points.6
SantiagoSplit
Score4842
Notable places within 2 km6243
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 1 points.1
SantiagoSplit
Score8180
Price level global46.248.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 16 points.16
SantiagoSplit
Score8569
Monthly daytime high14.3 °C to 27.7 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 87 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months82
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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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4

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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiagoSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
MadridMAD
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€108-177
SPU · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 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

MeasureSantiagoSplit
Official languageSpanishCroatian
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 m0 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoSplit
City population6,257,516160,577
People per km²7,468
Museums within 10 km5411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre6431
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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. 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.