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Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Siem Reap 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 Siem Reap for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • beaches
  • 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. Siem Reap 5, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Siem Reap 45, Valparaiso 50: Valparaiso leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Siem Reap 88, Valparaiso 62: Siem Reap leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Siem Reap 42, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siem Reap 40, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Siem Reap 55, Valparaiso 63: Valparaiso leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Siem Reap 35, Valparaiso 33: Siem Reap leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Siem Reap 30, Valparaiso 44: Valparaiso leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Siem Reap 38, Valparaiso 30: Siem Reap leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Siem Reap 88, Valparaiso 60: Siem Reap leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siem Reap 32, Valparaiso 38: Valparaiso leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siem Reap 60, Valparaiso 18: Siem Reap leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siem Reap and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Siem Reap
47match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on beaches 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.

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 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

Siem Reap has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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. Siem Reap: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSiem ReapValparaiso
Official languageKhmerSpanish
CurrencyRiel (KHR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsACG230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 117, ambulance 119, fire 118Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation18 m21 m
Main airportSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSiem ReapValparaiso
City population147,866296,655
People per km²-6,180
Museums within 10 km617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.