VacationSelector

Como or Lima?

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

Your match

Como
34
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming 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.

ComoLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
ComoLima
Score037
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km812
Coast distance156 km6 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 27 points.27
ComoLima
Score2552
Restaurants within 2 km of centre259796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km714
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 18 points.18
ComoLima
Score4664
Museums within 10 km989
Museums within 2 km of centre647
Share of museums within 2 km %6753
Unesco sites within 50 km82
Nightlife. Lima leads by 21 points.21
ComoLima
Score2445
Drinking venues within 4 km213409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre143177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6743
Nightclubs within 4 km163
Nature & day trips. Como leads by 13 points.13
ComoLima
Score4027
Protected land share 50 km %232
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km15 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 41 points.41
ComoLima
Score1556
Tourist attractions within 2 km625
Park area within 2 km15 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 16 points.16
ComoLima
Score3046
Notable places within 2 km2254
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 12 points.12
ComoLima
Score6880
Price level global64.947.7
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 34 points.34
ComoLima
Score5892
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 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
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Como
No coastline within reach
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3
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. Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoLima
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 34 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 34 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 34 km
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 43 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
10 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
6 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 2026-09 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

MeasureComoLima
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
Elevation201 m154 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoLima
City population83,1849,943,800
People per km²2,2423,721
Museums within 10 km946
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km82
Distinct cuisines in the centre2233
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.