Santiago vs Caracas

A 70 m² apartment per month: Santiago Centro 623k pesos, Ñuñoa 777k, Las Condes 916k. Utilities on top.

SpecialistEl Diario Inmobiliario: rents by commune in Santiago, Yapo.cl “Radiografía 2025” · checked 28 Sep 2026

Prices are quoted in UF, not in pesos. The average apartment: Ñuñoa 6,200 UF (about 254 million pesos), Santiago Centro 3,100 UF.

SpecialistBioBioChile: apartment purchase prices (BDO Chile) and three-bedroom rents (TocToc) by commune · checked 28 Sep 2026

Three bedrooms per month: La Florida 541k pesos, Ñuñoa 786k, Las Condes 2.08 million. The gap is almost fourfold.

SpecialistBioBioChile: apartment purchase prices (BDO Chile) and three-bedroom rents (TocToc) by commune · checked 28 Sep 2026

An apartment with three or more bedrooms by listings: 750-4900 dollars a month, median about 1600. The east is the most expensive: Campo Alegre, La Castellana, El Rosal.

SpecialistRent-A-House: apartments for rent with three or more bedrooms, Distrito Metropolitano (Caracas), pages 1-3 · checked 6 Oct 2026

An apartment with three or more bedrooms by listings: from 72k to 1.25 million dollars, median about 170k. Most often 80-200k for 76-155 m².

SpecialistRent-A-House: apartments for sale with three or more bedrooms, Distrito Metropolitano (Caracas), pages 1-2 · checked 6 Oct 2026

The minimum food basket is 92,327 pesos per person per month, about 369k for four. Without household chemicals and meals out.

OfficialChile's Ministry of Social Development: cost of the basic food basket and poverty lines, August 2026 · checked 28 Sep 2026

The poverty line for a renting family of four is 994,038 pesos a month. A realistic budget with normal rent is from 1.8–2.2 million.

OfficialChile's Ministry of Social Development: cost of the basic food basket and poverty lines, August 2026 · checked 28 Sep 2026

The Cendas food basket for a family of five cost 727.89 dollars a month in July 2026; pro rata for four, about 580. Plus 13.5 for drinking water.

SpecialistEl Diario: Cendas-FVM, family food basket in July 2026 at 727.89 dollars · checked 6 Oct 2026

A subsidized school with a co-payment: 122k pesos a month. The German school in Santiago: about 793k pesos in each of ten payments.

SpecialistColegio Alto Palena: information letter on fees for the 2026 school year · checked 28 Sep 2026

Private schools in Caracas charge 70-360 dollars a month for 2026-2027, plus an enrolment fee of 225-1560 dollars. Payment in bolivars at the BCV rate is accepted.

SpecialistEl Diario: private schools of Greater Caracas, fees for the 2026-2027 school year · checked 6 Oct 2026

The Metropolitan Region has 62 accredited inpatient facilities, 52 of them high complexity. There are three children's hospitals plus two specialized children's centers.

OfficialSuperintendencia de Salud: register of accredited healthcare providers in the Metropolitan Region · checked 28 Sep 2026

Santiago airport handled 15.73 million passengers from January to July 2025, twice the pre-pandemic level. In July there were more international flights than domestic ones.

SpecialistSantiago airport: passenger record for January-July 2025 · checked 28 Sep 2026

After the earthquakes, Maiquetía airport resumed commercial flights on 1 September 2026, but with limited capacity. To the city, use only a pre-booked taxi.

OfficialUK Foreign Office: Venezuela travel advice, Warnings and insurance (updated 2 September 2026) · checked 6 Oct 2026

The average temperature in July 2026 at the Quinta Normal station was 10.6 °C. Winter is mild on paper, but homes are not insulated, so it can be colder indoors than outside during the day.

OfficialChilean Meteorological Service: average temperature in July 2026, Quinta Normal station (330020) · checked 28 Sep 2026

286 mm a year under the 1991–2020 norm, almost all of it in winter. Over thirty years the norm has dropped by 16%: it was 342 mm.

OfficialDGAC: update of climate normals, 1991-2020 period · checked 28 Sep 2026

By mid-June 2026 the city already had 15 critical pollution episodes. A year earlier at the same date there was one; in 2024, none.

SpecialistEmol: Santiago exceeded the number of critical pollution episodes of the previous two years · checked 28 Sep 2026

About 910 mm a year. Dry from January to March (11-15 mm a month); the rainy season runs from May to October, with 80-135 mm a month and 13-19 rainy days.

OfficialWMO World Weather Information Service: climate normals for Caracas · checked 6 Oct 2026

There is no winter as a season. The coolest month is January: about 13 degrees at night, 29 by day. All year round 28-32 degrees by day, 13-18 at night.

OfficialWMO World Weather Information Service: climate normals for Caracas · checked 6 Oct 2026

In the first half of 2025, the commune of Santiago had 21 homicides, La Pintana and Puente Alto 19 each, Ñuñoa 4, Vitacura 2, and Las Condes and Providencia none.

OfficialReport on homicide victims for the first half of 2025, with figures by commune · checked 28 Sep 2026

On 24 June 2026 two earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 badly damaged La Guaira and parts of Caracas. The risk of further tremors remains.

OfficialUK Foreign Office: Venezuela travel advice, Safety and security · checked 6 Oct 2026

The Russian Foreign Ministry names Catia, Petare, Antímano, La Vega, Caricuao, El Paraíso and 23 de Enero as especially dangerous. Evening walks are risky almost everywhere.

OfficialRussian Foreign Ministry Consular Department: information about Venezuela (transport, crime) · checked 6 Oct 2026

Symmetric fiber at 600–940 Mbps for 11,990–15,990 pesos a month ($12–17) on a 12-month promotion. The price goes up afterwards.

SpecialistComparaiso: current home fiber internet rates in Chile · checked 28 Sep 2026

As of June 2026, fiber accounts for 87.3% of all fixed connections in the country, and 77.3% of urban households have wired internet. The average home downloads 699 GB a month.

SpecialistBioBioChile: Subtel telecommunications data for the first half of 2026 · checked 28 Sep 2026

Median fixed internet speed in Venezuela is 127 Mbit/s, mobile 28 (Speedtest, August 2026). CANTV sells fibre up to 1 Gbit/s. When power goes, so does connectivity.

SpecialistSpeedtest Global Index: Venezuela, median speeds, August 2026 · checked 6 Oct 2026

Metrogas piped gas: 1,336 pesos per m³ in the 60–130 m³ band. A winter month with gas heating is about 100 m³, which is roughly 134k pesos ($139).

OfficialMetrogas: publication of new gas rates, in effect from 24 March 2026 · checked 28 Sep 2026

Water with sewerage in Greater Santiago: about 1,384 pesos per m³ including IVA and 944 a month according to an aggregator site. Only the water part is officially verified: 577.57 per m³ in 2025.

SpecialistAhorraHogar.cl: price of a cubic meter of water in Chile, tariffs by company (Aguas Andinas, SISS sheet from 11 May 2026) · checked 30 Sep 2026

Outages are the main problem: the country is short of up to 4000 MW, and in half of it power is cut for 4-12 hours a day. Tap water is not drunk; drinking water costs 13.5 dollars.

SpecialistCrónica Uno: the 14,000-megawatt gap, Venezuela's electricity deficit, 3 October 2026 · checked 6 Oct 2026