VacationSelector

Santiago or The Hague?

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, 2 points apart

Santiago
55
match

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

The Hague
57
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.

SantiagoThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
SantiagoThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km034
Coast distance89 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 2 points.2
SantiagoThe Hague
Score7270
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,317798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3243
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 17 points.17
SantiagoThe Hague
Score4562
Museums within 10 km8746
Museums within 2 km of centre3026
Share of museums within 2 km %3457
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 15 points.15
SantiagoThe Hague
Score6146
Drinking venues within 4 km912511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre542288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5956
Nightclubs within 4 km11219
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 2 points.2
SantiagoThe Hague
Score5254
Protected land share 50 km %178
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km88 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 7 points.7
SantiagoThe Hague
Score4956
Tourist attractions within 2 km1210
Park area within 2 km88 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 6 points.6
SantiagoThe Hague
Score4854
Notable places within 2 km6286
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 23 points.23
SantiagoThe Hague
Score8158
Price level global46.279.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 31 points.31
SantiagoThe Hague
Score8554
Monthly daytime high14.3 °C to 27.7 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 87 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months80
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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiagoThe Hague
MadridMAD
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
2 h 0 m
€140-179
SCL · 14 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
3 h 45 m
€267-313
SCL · 14 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
LimaLIM
3 h 35 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
BogotaBOG
5 h 40 m
€340-367
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
4 h 5 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
8 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
8 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 40 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

MeasureSantiagoThe Hague
Official languageSpanishDutch
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 or 911
Elevation575 m1 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoThe Hague
City population6,257,516548,320
People per km²7,4685,589
Museums within 10 km5454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre6477
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.