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A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside
The beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier, Virginia Beach
Virginia BeachThe beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier

Photos: Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Virginia Beach by SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Valparaiso or Virginia Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Virginia Beach for

  • families
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Virginia Beach’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, Virginia Beach 77: Virginia Beach leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Valparaiso 50, Virginia Beach 42: Valparaiso leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Valparaiso 62, Virginia Beach 30: Valparaiso leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Valparaiso 56, Virginia Beach 37: Valparaiso leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Valparaiso 60, Virginia Beach 56: Valparaiso leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Valparaiso 63, Virginia Beach 64: Virginia Beach leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Valparaiso 33, Virginia Beach 75: Virginia Beach leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Valparaiso 44, Virginia Beach 27: Valparaiso leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Valparaiso 30, Virginia Beach 32: Virginia Beach leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Valparaiso 60, Virginia Beach 40: Valparaiso leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Valparaiso and Virginia Beach are level on 38.
Wellness & relaxation. Valparaiso 18, Virginia Beach 32: Virginia Beach leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Valparaiso and Virginia Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Valparaiso
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Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Virginia Beach
46match

Wins on families and beaches 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
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Virginia Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
152 mmrain in the month
25 °Csea
14 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). Virginia Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Virginia Beach / Gatewood Park (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureValparaisoVirginia Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132911
Elevation21 m7 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinationsNorfolk International Airport (ORF)20 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureValparaisoVirginia Beach
City population296,655459,470
People per km²6,180-
Museums within 10 km172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.