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The terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago
SantiagoThe terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Santiago by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Santiago or Yokohama?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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 12, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Santiago 60, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Santiago 52, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Santiago 60, Yokohama 44: Santiago leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santiago 83, Yokohama 66: Santiago leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Santiago 70, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Santiago 57, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Santiago 68, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Santiago 52, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Santiago 58, Yokohama 55: Santiago leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santiago 55, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santiago 37, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santiago and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Santiago
55match

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

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and families 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
No seasea
10 hdaylight a day

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSantiagoYokohama
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132Police 110, fire 119
Elevation575 m24 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre67 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoYokohama
City population6,257,5163,757,630
People per km²7,4688,585
Museums within 10 km5438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.