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A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Valparaiso or Venice?

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
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Venice leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Valparaiso 50, Venice 60: Venice leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Valparaiso 62, Venice 94: Venice leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Valparaiso 56, Venice 27: Valparaiso leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Valparaiso 60, Venice 45: Valparaiso leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Valparaiso 63, Venice 86: Venice leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Valparaiso 33, Venice 45: Venice leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Valparaiso 44, Venice 68: Venice leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Valparaiso 30, Venice 57: Venice leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Valparaiso 60, Venice 20: Valparaiso leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Valparaiso 38, Venice 62: Venice leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Valparaiso 18, Venice 40: Venice leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Valparaiso and Venice.

Your match

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

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Venice
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureValparaisoVenice
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132112
Elevation21 m2 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureValparaisoVenice
City population296,655250,369
People per km²6,180602
Museums within 10 km1752
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.