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A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Valparaiso or Warsaw?

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

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Warsaw for

  • families
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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, Warsaw 12: Valparaiso leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Valparaiso 50, Warsaw 60: Warsaw leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Valparaiso 62, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Valparaiso 56, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Valparaiso 60, Warsaw 47: Valparaiso leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Valparaiso 63, Warsaw 52: Valparaiso leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Valparaiso 33, Warsaw 62: Warsaw leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Valparaiso 44, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Valparaiso 30, Warsaw 55: Warsaw leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Valparaiso 60, Warsaw 64: Warsaw leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Valparaiso 38, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Valparaiso 18, Warsaw 35: Warsaw leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Valparaiso and Warsaw.

Your match

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

Valparaiso
46match

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

Warsaw
Best match
55match

Wins on families and getting around 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

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureValparaisoWarsaw
Official languageSpanishPolish
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132112
Elevation21 m118 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureValparaisoWarsaw
City population296,6551,862,402
People per km²6,1803,601
Museums within 10 km17117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.