VacationSelector

Santiago or West Palm Beach?

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 value for money with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

SantiagoWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
SantiagoWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance89 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 35 points.35
SantiagoWest Palm Beach
Score7237
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,317262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3214
Museums & heritage. Santiago leads by 28 points.28
SantiagoWest Palm Beach
Score4517
Museums within 10 km875
Museums within 2 km of centre303
Share of museums within 2 km %3460
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 41 points.41
SantiagoWest Palm Beach
Score6120
Drinking venues within 4 km912132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre54290
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5968
Nightclubs within 4 km11210
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 17 points.17
SantiagoWest Palm Beach
Score5269
Protected land share 50 km %1715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km88 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Santiago leads by 28 points.28
SantiagoWest Palm Beach
Score4921
Tourist attractions within 2 km123
Park area within 2 km88 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Santiago leads by 36 points.36
SantiagoWest Palm Beach
Score4812
Notable places within 2 km628
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 38 points.38
SantiagoWest Palm Beach
Score8143
Price level global46.2100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 10 points.10
SantiagoWest Palm Beach
Score8575
Monthly daytime high14.3 °C to 27.7 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 87 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Santiago
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiagoWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
2 h 0 m
€140-179
SCL · 14 km
9 h 5 m
€511-537
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 50 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
3 h 45 m
€267-313
SCL · 14 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MontevideoMVD
2 h 15 m
€224-241
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LimaLIM
3 h 35 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
5 h 40 m
€312-417
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 35 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MedellinMDE, EOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
FLL · 72 km
BogotaBOG
5 h 40 m
€340-367
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
FLL · 72 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

MeasureSantiagoWest Palm Beach
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)US Dollar (USD)
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 m6 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoWest Palm Beach
City population6,257,516117,415
People per km²7,468786
Museums within 10 km544
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6418
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.