VacationSelector

Cork or Lima?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

CorkLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 9 points.9
CorkLima
Score2837
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km112
Coast distance3 km6 km
Water distance3 km6 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 2 points.2
CorkLima
Score5052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3514
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 41 points.41
CorkLima
Score2364
Museums within 10 km1089
Museums within 2 km of centre847
Share of museums within 2 km %8053
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Lima leads by 7 points.7
CorkLima
Score3845
Drinking venues within 4 km361409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8143
Nightclubs within 4 km963
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 25 points.25
CorkLima
Score5227
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7451
Park area within 2 km48 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 29 points.29
CorkLima
Score2756
Tourist attractions within 2 km725
Park area within 2 km48 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 24 points.24
CorkLima
Score2246
Notable places within 2 km1454
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 23 points.23
CorkLima
Score5780
Price level global80.247.7
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 43 points.43
CorkLima
Score4992
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
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
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkLima
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
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

MeasureCorkLima
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation0 m154 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkLima
City population222,3339,943,800
People per km²5,9613,721
Museums within 10 km546
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre4933
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). 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.