VacationSelector

Brussels or Lima?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Brussels
56
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration 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.

BrusselsLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
BrusselsLima
Score037
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km012
Coast distance56 km6 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 29 points.29
BrusselsLima
Score8152
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,779796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4414
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 16 points.16
BrusselsLima
Score8064
Museums within 10 km12089
Museums within 2 km of centre5947
Share of museums within 2 km %4953
Unesco sites within 50 km102
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 23 points.23
BrusselsLima
Score6845
Drinking venues within 4 km1,414409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6143
Nightclubs within 4 km8463
Nature & day trips. Brussels leads by 4 points.4
BrusselsLima
Score3127
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km65 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Brussels and Lima are level on 56.
BrusselsLima
Score5656
Tourist attractions within 2 km2825
Park area within 2 km65 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 27 points.27
BrusselsLima
Score7346
Notable places within 2 km25454
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 20 points.20
BrusselsLima
Score6080
Price level global76.247.7
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 35 points.35
BrusselsLima
Score5792
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsLima
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 11 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
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

MeasureBrusselsLima
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSpanish, 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
Elevation70 m154 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsLima
City population195,5469,943,800
People per km²5,9083,721
Museums within 10 km10546
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km102
Distinct cuisines in the centre10933
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.