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The terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago
SantiagoThe terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Santiago by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Santiago or Saint-Tropez?

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 Santiago for

  • prices
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’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. Santiago 12, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Santiago 60, Saint-Tropez 48: Santiago leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Santiago 52, Saint-Tropez 35: Santiago leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Santiago and Saint-Tropez are level on 60.
Nature & outdoors. Santiago 83, Saint-Tropez 72: Santiago leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Santiago 70, Saint-Tropez 57: Santiago leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Santiago 57, Saint-Tropez 42: Santiago leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Santiago 68, Saint-Tropez 32: Santiago leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Santiago 52, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Santiago 58, Saint-Tropez 8: Santiago leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santiago 55, Saint-Tropez 18: Santiago leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santiago 37, Saint-Tropez 35: Santiago leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santiago and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Santiago
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Santiago in July

14 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
52 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
10 hdaylight a day

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Saint-Tropez 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.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSantiagoSaint-Tropez
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzCE230 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 centre67 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoSaint-Tropez
City population6,257,5163,582
People per km²7,468320
Museums within 10 km544
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.