VacationSelector

Berlin or Lima?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Lima
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BerlinLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
BerlinLima
Score037
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km1712
Coast distance142 km6 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 18 points.18
BerlinLima
Score7052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3314
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 15 points.15
BerlinLima
Score7964
Museums within 10 km20089
Museums within 2 km of centre8147
Share of museums within 2 km %4153
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 31 points.31
BerlinLima
Score7645
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3443
Nightclubs within 4 km13563
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 22 points.22
BerlinLima
Score4927
Protected land share 50 km %202
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km141 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 20 points.20
BerlinLima
Score7656
Tourist attractions within 2 km5425
Park area within 2 km141 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 38 points.38
BerlinLima
Score8446
Notable places within 2 km48654
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 20 points.20
BerlinLima
Score6080
Price level global75.947.7
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 32 points.32
BerlinLima
Score6092
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinLima
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
€158-204
1 stop
BER · 19 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€101-133
BER · 19 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 20 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
8 h 0 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

MeasureBerlinLima
Official languageGermanSpanish, 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
Elevation34 m154 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinLima
City population3,782,2029,943,800
People per km²4,2443,721
Museums within 10 km15846
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8633
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). 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. 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. 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.