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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Arequipa or Nice?

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

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

Choose Nice for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’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, Nice 75: Nice leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa and Nice are level on 66.
Culture & sights. Arequipa and Nice are level on 64.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Nice 47: Nice leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Nice 80: Nice leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Nice 87: Nice leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Nice 57: Nice leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Nice 74: Nice leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Nice 55: Nice leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Nice 35: Arequipa leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Nice 45: Nice leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Nice 40: Nice leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Nice.

Your match

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

Arequipa
46match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

Nice
Best match
60match

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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaNice
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaFrench
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation2,335 m0 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaNice
City population1,008,290357,737
People per km²1,5514,975
Museums within 10 km317
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.