VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Lima?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Lima
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AmsterdamLima
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 3 points.3
AmsterdamLima
Score4037
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km3312
Coast distance24 km6 km
Water distance24 km6 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 31 points.31
AmsterdamLima
Score8352
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4414
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 16 points.16
AmsterdamLima
Score8064
Museums within 10 km9889
Museums within 2 km of centre6947
Share of museums within 2 km %7053
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 25 points.25
AmsterdamLima
Score7045
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7043
Nightclubs within 4 km11463
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 33 points.33
AmsterdamLima
Score6027
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8251
Park area within 2 km49 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 12 points.12
AmsterdamLima
Score6856
Tourist attractions within 2 km7425
Park area within 2 km49 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 22 points.22
AmsterdamLima
Score6846
Notable places within 2 km19654
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 22 points.22
AmsterdamLima
Score5880
Price level global79.247.7
Daily budget€181—
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 35 points.35
AmsterdamLima
Score5792
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm0 mm to 1 mm
Dry months012
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamLima
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
14 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
4 h 25 m
€256
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
SantiagoSCL
14 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
3 h 35 m
€181-198
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAmsterdamLima
Official languageDutchSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112 or 911111 or 911
Elevation-2 m154 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamLima
City population921,4689,943,800
People per km²4,2083,721
Museums within 10 km10146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre9833
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.