VacationSelector

Athens or Lima?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

AthensLima
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 11 points.11
AthensLima
Score4837
Swim season months52
Beaches 10 km1412
Coast distance6 km6 km
Water distance6 km6 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 17 points.17
AthensLima
Score6952
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2514
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 9 points.9
AthensLima
Score7364
Museums within 10 km12289
Museums within 2 km of centre7847
Share of museums within 2 km %6453
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Athens leads by 36 points.36
AthensLima
Score8145
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5043
Nightclubs within 4 km13663
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 18 points.18
AthensLima
Score4527
Protected land share 50 km %52
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5051
Park area within 2 km128 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 15 points.15
AthensLima
Score7156
Tourist attractions within 2 km6825
Park area within 2 km128 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 29 points.29
AthensLima
Score7546
Notable places within 2 km29154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 6 points.6
AthensLima
Score7480
Price level global55.847.7
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 18 points.18
AthensLima
Score7492
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm0 mm to 1 mm
Dry months712
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensLima
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
3 h 30 m
€156-172
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€202-223
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 15 m
€634
ATH · 20 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
€134-222
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
11 h 25 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
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

MeasureAthensLima
Official languageGreekSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation74 m154 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensLima
City population643,4529,943,800
People per km²16,4993,721
Museums within 10 km8846
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre8233
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months2 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.