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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Boca Raton or Lima?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Boca Raton for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Boca Raton’s own page.

Choose Lima for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Boca Raton 82, Lima 42: Boca Raton leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Lima 88: Lima leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Lima 66: Lima leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Lima 62: Lima leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Lima 45: Boca Raton leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Lima 34: Boca Raton leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Lima 42: Boca Raton leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Lima 35: Lima leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Lima 52: Boca Raton leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Lima 70: Lima leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Lima 53: Lima leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Lima 25: Boca Raton leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Lima.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Boca Raton in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
191 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Boca Raton has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Boca Raton: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Pompano Beach / Kendall Green (13.6 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonLima
Official language-Spanish, 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
Elevation4 m154 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonLima
City population97,4229,943,800
People per km²1,2033,721
Museums within 10 km547
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.