VacationSelector

Santiago or Tokyo?

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.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

SantiagoTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
SantiagoTokyo
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance89 km5 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 18 points.18
SantiagoTokyo
Score7290
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3176,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3225
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
SantiagoTokyo
Score4566
Museums within 10 km87302
Museums within 2 km of centre3052
Share of museums within 2 km %3417
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 34 points.34
SantiagoTokyo
Score6195
Drinking venues within 4 km9126,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5423,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5944
Nightclubs within 4 km11258
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 6 points.6
SantiagoTokyo
Score5258
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km88 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 22 points.22
SantiagoTokyo
Score4971
Tourist attractions within 2 km1240
Park area within 2 km88 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km39
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 12 points.12
SantiagoTokyo
Score4860
Notable places within 2 km62121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 11 points.11
SantiagoTokyo
Score8170
Price level global46.262.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 21 points.21
SantiagoTokyo
Score8564
Monthly daytime high14.3 °C to 27.7 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 87 mm57 mm to 237 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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiagoTokyo
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 15 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
8 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
MadridMAD
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
SydneySYD, WSI
14 h 0 m
€1,325-1342
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
9 h 55 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
12 h 55 m
€966-988
1 stop
HND · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
9 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
NRT · 56 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

MeasureSantiagoTokyo
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132Police 110, fire 119
Elevation575 m6 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoTokyo
City population6,257,51614,264,798
People per km²7,4686,501
Museums within 10 km54191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre64125
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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.