VacationSelector

Santiago or Venice?

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, 2 points apart

Santiago
55
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
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.

SantiagoVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
SantiagoVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km020
Coast distance89 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 27 points.27
SantiagoVenice
Score7245
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,317750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3210
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 27 points.27
SantiagoVenice
Score4572
Museums within 10 km8757
Museums within 2 km of centre3045
Share of museums within 2 km %3479
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 26 points.26
SantiagoVenice
Score6135
Drinking venues within 4 km912342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre542306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5989
Nightclubs within 4 km1123
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 35 points.35
SantiagoVenice
Score5217
Protected land share 50 km %174
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km88 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 8 points.8
SantiagoVenice
Score4957
Tourist attractions within 2 km1272
Park area within 2 km88 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 35 points.35
SantiagoVenice
Score4883
Notable places within 2 km62464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 13 points.13
SantiagoVenice
Score8168
Price level global46.264.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 19 points.19
SantiagoVenice
Score8566
Monthly daytime high14.3 °C to 27.7 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 87 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months82
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiagoVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
11 h 0 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 50 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
8 h 5 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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

MeasureSantiagoVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoVenice
City population6,257,516250,369
People per km²7,468602
Museums within 10 km5452
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre6446
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. 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.