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Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Savannah or Valparaiso?

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 Savannah for

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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. Savannah 55, Valparaiso 36: Savannah leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Savannah 58, Valparaiso 50: Savannah leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Savannah 68, Valparaiso 62: Savannah leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Savannah 52, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Savannah 48, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Savannah 60, Valparaiso 63: Valparaiso leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Savannah 50, Valparaiso 33: Savannah leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Savannah 58, Valparaiso 44: Savannah leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Savannah 42, Valparaiso 30: Savannah leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Savannah 35, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Savannah 40, Valparaiso 38: Savannah leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Savannah 40, Valparaiso 18: Savannah leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Savannah and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Savannah
Best match
51match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSavannahValparaiso
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation15 m21 m
Main airportSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSavannahValparaiso
City population147,780296,655
People per km²5246,180
Museums within 10 km1917
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.