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Santiago or Toronto?

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, 1 point apart

Santiago
55
match

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

Toronto
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

SantiagoToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
SantiagoToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km058
Coast distance89 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 10 points.10
SantiagoToronto
Score7282
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3172,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3239
Museums & heritage. Santiago leads by 2 points.2
SantiagoToronto
Score4543
Museums within 10 km8735
Museums within 2 km of centre3025
Share of museums within 2 km %3471
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 8 points.8
SantiagoToronto
Score6169
Drinking venues within 4 km9121,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre542966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5964
Nightclubs within 4 km112103
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 26 points.26
SantiagoToronto
Score5226
Protected land share 50 km %172
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 8 points.8
SantiagoToronto
Score4957
Tourist attractions within 2 km1223
Park area within 2 km88 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 13 points.13
SantiagoToronto
Score4861
Notable places within 2 km62128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 27 points.27
SantiagoToronto
Score8154
Price level global46.284
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 30 points.30
SantiagoToronto
Score8555
Monthly daytime high14.3 °C to 27.7 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 87 mm51 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11
Toronto
No sunshine record

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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiagoToronto
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
2 h 0 m
€140-179
SCL · 14 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
4 h 10 m
€500-667
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
11 h 0 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
8 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
3 h 45 m
€267-313
SCL · 14 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LimaLIM
3 h 35 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
CancunCUN
8 h 5 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
SydneySYD, WSI
14 h 0 m
€1,325-1342
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
19 h 0 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureSantiagoToronto
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132911
Elevation575 m76 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoToronto
City population6,257,5162,794,356
People per km²7,4684,434
Museums within 10 km5432
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre64102
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.