VacationSelector

Santiago or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Santiago
55
match

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

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

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

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Scoreboard

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

SantiagoStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
SantiagoStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km073
Coast distance89 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 4 points.4
SantiagoStockholm
Score7276
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3171,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3236
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 24 points.24
SantiagoStockholm
Score4569
Museums within 10 km8774
Museums within 2 km of centre3047
Share of museums within 2 km %3464
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
SantiagoStockholm
Score6164
Drinking venues within 4 km9121,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre542689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5963
Nightclubs within 4 km112106
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 11 points.11
SantiagoStockholm
Score5241
Protected land share 50 km %177
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km88 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 8 points.8
SantiagoStockholm
Score4957
Tourist attractions within 2 km1223
Park area within 2 km88 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 31 points.31
SantiagoStockholm
Score4879
Notable places within 2 km62357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 24 points.24
SantiagoStockholm
Score8157
Price level global46.280.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 32 points.32
SantiagoStockholm
Score8553
Monthly daytime high14.3 °C to 27.7 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 87 mm27 mm to 66 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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiagoStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
3 h 25 m
€90-234
ARN · 36 km
MadridMAD
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 50 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasureSantiagoStockholm
Official languageSpanishSwedish
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Swedish Krona (SEK)
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 m22 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoStockholm
City population6,257,516984,748
People per km²7,4685,260
Museums within 10 km54266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6481
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.