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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0.

Arequipa or Boca Raton?

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 Arequipa for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Boca Raton for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Boca Raton’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. Arequipa 8, Boca Raton 82: Boca Raton leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Boca Raton 44: Arequipa leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Boca Raton 28: Arequipa leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Boca Raton 32: Arequipa leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Boca Raton 50: Arequipa leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Boca Raton 60: Boca Raton leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Boca Raton 62: Boca Raton leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Boca Raton 18: Arequipa leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Boca Raton 54: Boca Raton leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Boca Raton 22: Arequipa leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Boca Raton 33: Boca Raton leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Boca Raton 42: Boca Raton leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Boca Raton.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Arequipa
46match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Boca Raton in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
191 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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ArequipaBoca Raton

Where the figures come from

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Boca Raton 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. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Boca Raton: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Pompano Beach / Kendall Green (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaBoca Raton
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua-
CurrencySol (PEN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation2,335 m4 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaBoca Raton
City population1,008,29097,422
People per km²1,5511,203
Museums within 10 km35
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.