VacationSelector

Santiago or Valletta?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
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.

SantiagoValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
SantiagoValletta
Score077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance89 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 14 points.14
SantiagoValletta
Score7258
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,317416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 16 points.16
SantiagoValletta
Score4561
Museums within 10 km8746
Museums within 2 km of centre3029
Share of museums within 2 km %3463
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 14 points.14
SantiagoValletta
Score6147
Drinking venues within 4 km912522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre542250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5948
Nightclubs within 4 km11227
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 6 points.6
SantiagoValletta
Score5246
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %1006
Park area within 2 km88 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Santiago leads by 3 points.3
SantiagoValletta
Score4946
Tourist attractions within 2 km1232
Park area within 2 km88 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 13 points.13
SantiagoValletta
Score4861
Notable places within 2 km62133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 12 points.12
SantiagoValletta
Score8169
Price level global46.262.8
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 6 points.6
SantiagoValletta
Score8579
Monthly daytime high14.3 °C to 27.7 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 87 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months86
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
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Valletta
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
Valletta
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiagoValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MadridMAD
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€56-95
MLA · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
3 h 0 m
€205-271
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 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

MeasureSantiagoValletta
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132112
Elevation575 m56 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoValletta
City population6,257,5166,444
People per km²7,4688,055
Museums within 10 km5415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6455
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. 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.