VacationSelector

Bangkok or Lima?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Lima
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BangkokLima
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 3 points.3
BangkokLima
Score4037
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km012
Coast distance23 km6 km
Water distance23 km6 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 31 points.31
BangkokLima
Score8352
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2614
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 18 points.18
BangkokLima
Score4664
Museums within 10 km10389
Museums within 2 km of centre3047
Share of museums within 2 km %2953
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 38 points.38
BangkokLima
Score8345
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4143
Nightclubs within 4 km7263
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 24 points.24
BangkokLima
Score5127
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8351
Park area within 2 km42 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 1 points.1
BangkokLima
Score5756
Tourist attractions within 2 km3125
Park area within 2 km42 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
BangkokLima
Score4846
Notable places within 2 km6254
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 13 points.13
BangkokLima
Score9380
Price level global29.747.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 36 points.36
BangkokLima
Score5692
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm0 mm to 1 mm
Dry months312
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokLima
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
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

MeasureBangkokLima
Official languageThaiSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyBaht (THB)Sol (PEN)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199111 or 911
Elevation2 m154 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokLima
City population5,676,6489,943,800
People per km²3,6193,721
Museums within 10 km5946
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre9133
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.