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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
Portofino and its bay from the hillside, Portofino
PortofinoPortofino and its bay from the hillside

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Portofino by Michal Osmenda, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Arequipa or Portofino?

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 Portofino for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Portofino’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, Portofino 60: Portofino leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Portofino 36: Arequipa leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Portofino 22: Arequipa leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Portofino 14: Arequipa leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Portofino 77: Portofino leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Portofino 76: Portofino leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Portofino 33: Arequipa leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Portofino 50: Arequipa leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Portofino 29: Arequipa leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Portofino 9: Arequipa leads by 73 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Portofino 7: Arequipa leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Portofino 42: Portofino leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Portofino.

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.

Portofino
38match

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

Portofino in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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ArequipaPortofino

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.

Portofino's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Genova / Sestri.

Portofino 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). Portofino: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (31 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaPortofino
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaItalian
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation2,335 m20 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)32 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaPortofino
City population1,008,290355
People per km²1,551142
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.