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The terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago
SantiagoThe terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: Santiago by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Santiago or Tel Aviv?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Tel Aviv for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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, Tel Aviv 86: Tel Aviv leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Santiago 60, Tel Aviv 80: Tel Aviv leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Santiago 52, Tel Aviv 57: Tel Aviv leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Santiago 60, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santiago 83, Tel Aviv 52: Santiago leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Santiago 70, Tel Aviv 84: Tel Aviv leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Santiago 57, Tel Aviv 68: Tel Aviv leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Santiago 68, Tel Aviv 64: Santiago leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Santiago 52, Tel Aviv 55: Tel Aviv leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Santiago 58, Tel Aviv 14: Santiago leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santiago 55, Tel Aviv 70: Tel Aviv leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santiago 37, Tel Aviv 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 Tel Aviv.

Your match

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

Santiago
55match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Tel Aviv
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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SantiagoTel Aviv

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSantiagoTel Aviv
Official languageSpanishHebrew
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132Police 100, fire 102
Elevation575 m5 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre67 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoTel Aviv
City population6,257,516467,875
People per km²7,4688,998
Museums within 10 km5498
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.