VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Lima?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Lima
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CopenhagenLima
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 17 points.17
CopenhagenLima
Score5437
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km1712
Coast distance1 km6 km
Water distance1 km6 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 21 points.21
CopenhagenLima
Score7352
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3714
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 11 points.11
CopenhagenLima
Score7564
Museums within 10 km8389
Museums within 2 km of centre5147
Share of museums within 2 km %6153
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenLima
Score6745
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5843
Nightclubs within 4 km6463
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 23 points.23
CopenhagenLima
Score5027
Protected land share 50 km %52
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3951
Park area within 2 km138 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 15 points.15
CopenhagenLima
Score7156
Tourist attractions within 2 km5425
Park area within 2 km138 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 28 points.28
CopenhagenLima
Score7446
Notable places within 2 km27354
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 28 points.28
CopenhagenLima
Score5280
Price level global87.847.7
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 37 points.37
CopenhagenLima
Score5592
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm0 mm to 1 mm
Dry months312
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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
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. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenLima
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
3 h 5 m
€122-160
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
8 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCopenhagenLima
Official languageDanishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation14 m154 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenLima
City population667,0999,943,800
People per km²7,3393,721
Museums within 10 km7246
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre8233
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.