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The terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago
SantiagoThe terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Santiago by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Santiago or Turin?

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

  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Turin for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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 and Turin are level on 12.
Food & drink. Santiago 60, Turin 81: Turin leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Santiago 52, Turin 78: Turin leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Santiago 60, Turin 50: Santiago leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santiago 83, Turin 80: Santiago leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Santiago 70, Turin 84: Turin leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Santiago and Turin are level on 57.
Getting around. Santiago and Turin are level on 68.
Shopping & style. Santiago 52, Turin 58: Turin leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Santiago and Turin are level on 58.
Live music & performing arts. Santiago 55, Turin 65: Turin leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santiago 37, Turin 40: Turin leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santiago and Turin.

Your match

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

Santiago
55match

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

Turin
Best match
61match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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
10 hdaylight a day

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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SantiagoTurin

Where the figures come from

Turin has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSantiagoTurin
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzCFL230 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
Elevation575 m239 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre67 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoTurin
City population6,257,516841,600
People per km²7,4686,474
Museums within 10 km5472
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04

Where else could you go?

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.