VacationSelector

Catania or Lima?

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

Your match

Catania
52
match

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

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on good for families 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.

CataniaLima
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 21 points.21
CataniaLima
Score5837
Swim season months52
Beaches 10 km512
Coast distance1 km6 km
Water distance1 km6 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 3 points.3
CataniaLima
Score4952
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1414
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 5 points.5
CataniaLima
Score5964
Museums within 10 km3489
Museums within 2 km of centre2747
Share of museums within 2 km %7953
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Catania leads by 2 points.2
CataniaLima
Score4745
Drinking venues within 4 km537409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7543
Nightclubs within 4 km1863
Nature & day trips. Catania leads by 4 points.4
CataniaLima
Score3127
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6151
Park area within 2 km11 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 20 points.20
CataniaLima
Score3656
Tourist attractions within 2 km2525
Park area within 2 km11 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 7 points.7
CataniaLima
Score3946
Notable places within 2 km3754
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 12 points.12
CataniaLima
Score6880
Price level global64.947.7
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 15 points.15
CataniaLima
Score7792
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaLima
MadridMAD
2 h 35 m
€133-162
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
€89-123
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
9 h 0 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
7 h 35 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

MeasureCataniaLima
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
Elevation7 m154 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaLima
City population311,5849,943,800
People per km²1,7043,721
Museums within 10 km2546
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre3033
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months2 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). 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. 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.