VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Lima?

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

Your match

Bordeaux
49
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

BordeauxLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
BordeauxLima
Score037
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km412
Coast distance18 km6 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 16 points.16
BordeauxLima
Score6852
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3214
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxLima
Score5564
Museums within 10 km3589
Museums within 2 km of centre1747
Share of museums within 2 km %4953
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 3 points.3
BordeauxLima
Score4845
Drinking venues within 4 km546409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7843
Nightclubs within 4 km3263
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 24 points.24
BordeauxLima
Score5127
Protected land share 50 km %352
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8551
Park area within 2 km43 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 11 points.11
BordeauxLima
Score4556
Tourist attractions within 2 km2125
Park area within 2 km43 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxLima
Score4546
Notable places within 2 km5154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 18 points.18
BordeauxLima
Score6280
Price level global73.747.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 24 points.24
BordeauxLima
Score6892
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm0 mm to 1 mm
Dry months012
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
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
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
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
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. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxLima
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
8 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBordeauxLima
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation1 m154 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxLima
City population267,9919,943,800
People per km²5,4253,721
Museums within 10 km1846
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8133
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.