Plugs and voltage
Chile uses Types C and L sockets; Type F is also found. Mains supply is 220 V at 50 Hz.
At 220 V, devices made only for 100–127 V (many American and Japanese hair dryers, curling irons and some shavers) will be damaged without a step-down converter. Chargers labelled “100–240V” work fine with just a plug adapter.
Adapter guides: from United States
Money
$ Chilean Peso CLP
Average in 2025: 1 USD = 951.3 CLP (World Bank). No daily reference rate is published for this currency by the ECB; check a live rate before exchanging.
Price level 51 (US = 100, 2025)
Everyday household prices in Chile are about 51% of US prices when converted at market exchange rates: dearer than the median country (50). All countries
Language
- Spanishofficial98%
Bars show the share of the population that speaks each language (CLDR estimates).
Time
Chile spans 2 time offsets right now:
- UTC−5 DST Pacific / Easter
- UTC−3 DST America / Santiago, America / Coyhaique, America / Punta Arenas
The capital is on UTC−3 (America/Santiago).
Driving
Traffic in Chile drives on the right, so the steering wheel is on the left.
Public holidays in the next 12 months
17 national public holidays from 2 November 2026. Banks, offices and many shops close; regional holidays are not shown. Dates marked “estimated” follow a lunar calendar and can move by a day.
December 2026
- Immaculate Conception
- Christmas Day
January 2027
- New Year's Day
March 2027
- Good Friday
- Holy Saturday
May 2027
- Labor Day
- Navy Day
June 2027
- National Indigenous Peoples Day
- Saint Peter and Saint Paul's Day
July 2027
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel
August 2027
- Assumption Day
September 2027
- National Holiday
- Independence Day
- Army Day
October 2027
- Meeting of Two Worlds' Day
- Reformation Day
November 2027
- All Saints' Day
Travel advisories
United States · State Department
Level 2 Exercise increased caution
Read the full advisory. Checked 2026-11-02.
United Kingdom · FCDO
No warnings The FCDO does not advise against travel to Chile.
Updated 2026-10-09. Read the full advice. Checked 2026-11-02.
Advisories are written for each government's own citizens and change without notice: read the original before you travel.
Other practical facts
- Calling code
- +56
- Internet domain
- .cl
- Measurement
- Metric
- Paper size
- US-Letter
- Week starts on
- Monday
- Read more
- Wikipedia
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