VacationSelector

Bologna or Lima?

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

Your match

Bologna
52
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Lima
✓ Best match
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.

BolognaLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
BolognaLima
Score037
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km212
Coast distance74 km6 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
BolognaLima
Score5852
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2014
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 3 points.3
BolognaLima
Score6764
Museums within 10 km5889
Museums within 2 km of centre4347
Share of museums within 2 km %7453
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 8 points.8
BolognaLima
Score5345
Drinking venues within 4 km720409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7443
Nightclubs within 4 km3063
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 12 points.12
BolognaLima
Score3927
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km119 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 1 points.1
BolognaLima
Score5556
Tourist attractions within 2 km3225
Park area within 2 km119 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 14 points.14
BolognaLima
Score6046
Notable places within 2 km12054
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 12 points.12
BolognaLima
Score6880
Price level global64.947.7
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 25 points.25
BolognaLima
Score6792
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBolognaLima
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
5 h 10 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

MeasureBolognaLima
Official languageItalianSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation54 m154 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaLima
City population387,9719,943,800
People per km²2,7543,721
Museums within 10 km6646
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre6233
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.