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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Agra or Lima?

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 Agra for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Lima for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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. Agra 3, Lima 42: Lima leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, Lima 88: Lima leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, Lima 66: Agra leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, Lima 62: Lima leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra 30, Lima 45: Lima leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Agra 70, Lima 34: Agra leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, Lima 42: Lima leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, Lima 35: Lima leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, Lima 52: Lima leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, Lima 70: Agra leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, Lima 53: Lima leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, Lima 25: Lima leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and Lima.

Your match

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

Agra
36match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Agra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Agra 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. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgraLima
Official languageHindi, EnglishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-5
Emergency number108 or 112111 or 911
Elevation171 m154 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgraLima
City population1,585,7059,943,800
People per km²8,4173,721
Museums within 10 km047
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Swim season, months above 21 °C-2 months

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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.