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Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Clearwater 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 Clearwater for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Clearwater’s own page.

Choose Lima for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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. Clearwater 90, Lima 42: Clearwater leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Clearwater 38, Lima 88: Lima leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Clearwater 18, Lima 66: Lima leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Clearwater 34, Lima 62: Lima leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Clearwater 55, Lima 45: Clearwater leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Clearwater 58, Lima 34: Clearwater leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Clearwater 78, Lima 42: Clearwater leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Clearwater 28, Lima 35: Lima leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Clearwater 27, Lima 52: Lima leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Clearwater 35, Lima 70: Lima leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Clearwater 36, Lima 53: Lima leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Clearwater 40, Lima 25: Clearwater leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Clearwater and Lima.

Your match

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

Clearwater
45match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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

Clearwater 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.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureClearwaterLima
Official language-Spanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Sol (PEN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911111 or 911
Elevation9 m154 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureClearwaterLima
City population117,2929,943,800
People per km²1,1543,721
Museums within 10 km447
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months2 months

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.

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.