Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high, from the same ten years of climate readings its page is built from. A dot marks a busy month. The last row counts the sweet spots, and the best months are marked.

Before you go

Cost of living	cheap — prices run about 48% of the United States' (World Bank, 2025)
Currency	Chilean peso
Languages	Spanish
Plugs	Type C and L, 220 V
Driving	On the right
Calling code	+56
Travel advice	No advice against travel — UK Foreign Office, updated 2026-08-18
Health	UK Foreign Office health advice

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank, refreshed 2026-09-23. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

On arrival

Apps — Rides: Cabify, DiDi, inDrive, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp.
Paying — Cards are accepted in chain stores and most independent shops in big cities; if the card machine asks about cuotas, choose sin cuotas.
UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
Getting around Santiago — Tap a contactless Visa or Mastercard bank card at Metro and Tren Nos gates, at the bip! fare. Red buses take only a bip! card, sold at Metro stations, or a QR code from the Red app, and no cash; with bip!, transfers within two hours cost little or nothing.
Tipping — About 10% in restaurants is customary, handed to the waiter; leaving nothing is seen as rude unless service was poor.
Emergency — police 133 · ambulance 131 · fire 132.
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 3 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

Sources (14)

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. Nothing is said about Chile as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.