VacationSelector

Barcelona or Lima?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

BarcelonaLima
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 28 points.28
BarcelonaLima
Score6537
Swim season months32
Beaches 10 km2012
Coast distance2 km6 km
Water distance2 km6 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 38 points.38
BarcelonaLima
Score9052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4114
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 4 points.4
BarcelonaLima
Score6864
Museums within 10 km10589
Museums within 2 km of centre4947
Share of museums within 2 km %4753
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 37 points.37
BarcelonaLima
Score8245
Drinking venues within 4 km2,711409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6143
Nightclubs within 4 km24563
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 23 points.23
BarcelonaLima
Score5027
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5151
Park area within 2 km49 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 9 points.9
BarcelonaLima
Score6556
Tourist attractions within 2 km6025
Park area within 2 km49 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 27 points.27
BarcelonaLima
Score7346
Notable places within 2 km25854
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 9 points.9
BarcelonaLima
Score7180
Price level global60.847.7
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 14 points.14
BarcelonaLima
Score7892
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm0 mm to 1 mm
Dry months512
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaLima
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
13 h 0 m
€1,610-1626
BCN · 13 km
4 h 25 m
€256
LIM · 9 km
SantiagoSCL
13 h 45 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
3 h 35 m
€181-198
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 0 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 35 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
BogotaBOG
10 h 40 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 50 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
5 h 40 m
€348-370
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

MeasureBarcelonaLima
Official languageSpanishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation9 m154 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaLima
City population1,731,6499,943,800
People per km²17,0943,721
Museums within 10 km9546
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre12833
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.