VacationSelector

Santiago or Tromso?

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

Your match

Santiago
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

SantiagoTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
SantiagoTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km014
Coast distance89 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 48 points.48
SantiagoTromso
Score7224
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,31785
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3216
Museums & heritage. Santiago leads by 22 points.22
SantiagoTromso
Score4523
Museums within 10 km8710
Museums within 2 km of centre308
Share of museums within 2 km %3480
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 54 points.54
SantiagoTromso
Score617
Drinking venues within 4 km91267
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre54261
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5991
Nightclubs within 4 km1125
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 41 points.41
SantiagoTromso
Score5211
Protected land share 50 km %179
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km88 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Santiago leads by 35 points.35
SantiagoTromso
Score4914
Tourist attractions within 2 km129
Park area within 2 km88 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Santiago leads by 20 points.20
SantiagoTromso
Score4828
Notable places within 2 km6220
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 27 points.27
SantiagoTromso
Score8154
Price level global46.285.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 52 points.52
SantiagoTromso
Score8533
Monthly daytime high14.3 °C to 27.7 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 87 mm56 mm to 128 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
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiagoTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureSantiagoTromso
Official languageSpanishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
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 132Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation575 m20 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoTromso
City population6,257,51679,943
People per km²7,46832
Museums within 10 km548
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6423
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. 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.