VacationSelector

Cardiff or Lima?

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

Your match

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

CardiffLima
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 9 points.9
CardiffLima
Score4637
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km812
Coast distance2 km6 km
Water distance2 km6 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 8 points.8
CardiffLima
Score6052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3214
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 25 points.25
CardiffLima
Score3964
Museums within 10 km6189
Museums within 2 km of centre647
Share of museums within 2 km %1053
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 3 points.3
CardiffLima
Score4845
Drinking venues within 4 km536409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7443
Nightclubs within 4 km3563
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 23 points.23
CardiffLima
Score5027
Protected land share 50 km %182
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6851
Park area within 2 km88 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 24 points.24
CardiffLima
Score3256
Tourist attractions within 2 km425
Park area within 2 km88 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 1 points.1
CardiffLima
Score4546
Notable places within 2 km5154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 26 points.26
CardiffLima
Score5480
Price level global84.947.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 38 points.38
CardiffLima
Score5492
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffLima
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
12 h 45 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

MeasureCardiffLima
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Sol (PEN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112 or 999111 or 911
Elevation41 m154 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffLima
City population383,5369,943,800
People per km²2,7343,721
Museums within 10 km946
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5533
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.