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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Arequipa or Interlaken?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Interlaken for

  • day trips
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Interlaken’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, Interlaken 30: Interlaken leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Interlaken 25: Arequipa leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Interlaken 8: Arequipa leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Interlaken 15: Arequipa leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Interlaken 97: Interlaken leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Interlaken 78: Interlaken leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Interlaken 72: Interlaken leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Interlaken 80: Interlaken leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Interlaken 22: Arequipa leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Interlaken 8: Arequipa leads by 74 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Interlaken 15: Arequipa leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Interlaken 40: Interlaken leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Interlaken.

Your match

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

Arequipa
Best match
46match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Interlaken
41match

Wins on day trips and families 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
11 hdaylight a day

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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.

Interlaken 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). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaInterlaken
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencySol (PEN)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation2,335 m571 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaInterlaken
City population1,008,2906,123
People per km²1,5511,424
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.