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A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

Photos: Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Valparaiso or Vancouver?

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 Valparaiso for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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. Valparaiso 36, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Valparaiso 50, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Valparaiso 62, Vancouver 42: Valparaiso leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Valparaiso 56, Vancouver 42: Valparaiso leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Valparaiso 60, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Valparaiso 63, Vancouver 45: Valparaiso leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Valparaiso 33, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 39 points.
Getting around. Valparaiso 44, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Valparaiso 30, Vancouver 55: Vancouver leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Valparaiso 60, Vancouver 27: Valparaiso leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Valparaiso 38, Vancouver 52: Vancouver leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Valparaiso 18, Vancouver 50: Vancouver leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Valparaiso and Vancouver.

Your match

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

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

Wins on families 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.

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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. Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureValparaisoVancouver
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132911
Elevation21 m2 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureValparaisoVancouver
City population296,655662,248
People per km²6,1805,759
Museums within 10 km1726
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). 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.

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.