VacationSelector

Atlanta or Lima?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AtlantaLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
AtlantaLima
Score037
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km012
Coast distance373 km6 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Atlanta leads by 7 points.7
AtlantaLima
Score5952
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2314
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 29 points.29
AtlantaLima
Score3564
Museums within 10 km4189
Museums within 2 km of centre1647
Share of museums within 2 km %3953
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 4 points.4
AtlantaLima
Score4945
Drinking venues within 4 km531409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5343
Nightclubs within 4 km4663
Nature & day trips. Atlanta leads by 4 points.4
AtlantaLima
Score3127
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km113 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 24 points.24
AtlantaLima
Score3256
Tourist attractions within 2 km225
Park area within 2 km113 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 6 points.6
AtlantaLima
Score4046
Notable places within 2 km3954
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 37 points.37
AtlantaLima
Score4380
Price level global10047.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 25 points.25
AtlantaLima
Score6792
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm0 mm to 1 mm
Dry months012
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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
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. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaLima
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
4 h 25 m
€256
LIM · 9 km
SantiagoSCL
9 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 35 m
€181-198
LIM · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 20 m
€165-240
1 stop
ATL · 14 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
1 h 50 m
€63-107
ATL · 14 km
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
6 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
2 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
8 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaLima
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Sol (PEN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911111 or 911
Elevation225 m154 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaLima
City population498,7159,943,800
People per km²1,4333,721
Museums within 10 km2746
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre5633
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.

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.