VacationSelector

Santiago or York?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on 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.

SantiagoYork
Beaches & swimming. Santiago and York are level on 0.
SantiagoYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance89 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 18 points.18
SantiagoYork
Score7254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,317361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3231
Museums & heritage. York leads by 1 points.1
SantiagoYork
Score4546
Museums within 10 km8718
Museums within 2 km of centre3016
Share of museums within 2 km %3489
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 18 points.18
SantiagoYork
Score6143
Drinking venues within 4 km912450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre542353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5978
Nightclubs within 4 km11214
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 19 points.19
SantiagoYork
Score5233
Protected land share 50 km %1717
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km88 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Santiago leads by 6 points.6
SantiagoYork
Score4943
Tourist attractions within 2 km1213
Park area within 2 km88 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Santiago leads by 9 points.9
SantiagoYork
Score4839
Notable places within 2 km6237
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 27 points.27
SantiagoYork
Score8154
Price level global46.284.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 29 points.29
SantiagoYork
Score8556
Monthly daytime high14.3 °C to 27.7 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 87 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months81
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSantiagoYork
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 50 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MadridMAD
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureSantiagoYork
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132112 or 999
Elevation575 m25 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoYork
City population6,257,516208,400
People per km²7,468766
Museums within 10 km5424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6454

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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. 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.