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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Breckenridge 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 Breckenridge for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Breckenridge’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. Breckenridge 4, Lima 42: Lima leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Lima 88: Lima leads by 55 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Lima 66: Lima leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Lima 62: Lima leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Lima 45: Breckenridge leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Lima 34: Breckenridge leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, Lima 42: Breckenridge leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Lima 35: Breckenridge leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Lima 52: Lima leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Lima 70: Lima leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Lima 53: Lima leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, Lima 25: Breckenridge leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Lima.

Your match

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

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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.

Breckenridge in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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

Breckenridge's temperatures are measured 38 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Breckenridge 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. Breckenridge: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (37.7 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeLima
Official language-Spanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Sol (PEN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911111 or 911
Elevation2,926 m154 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeLima
City population5,0789,943,800
People per km²3323,721
Museums within 10 km047
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-2 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. 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. 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.

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.