VacationSelector

Dresden or Lima?

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

Your match

Dresden
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

DresdenLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
DresdenLima
Score037
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km2212
Coast distance267 km6 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 9 points.9
DresdenLima
Score6152
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4214
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 10 points.10
DresdenLima
Score5464
Museums within 10 km6689
Museums within 2 km of centre3447
Share of museums within 2 km %5253
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Lima leads by 3 points.3
DresdenLima
Score4245
Drinking venues within 4 km359409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7443
Nightclubs within 4 km4363
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 12 points.12
DresdenLima
Score3927
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km80 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenLima
Score5956
Tourist attractions within 2 km3225
Park area within 2 km80 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 7 points.7
DresdenLima
Score5346
Notable places within 2 km8254
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 20 points.20
DresdenLima
Score6080
Price level global75.947.7
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 30 points.30
DresdenLima
Score6292
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm0 mm to 1 mm
Dry months412
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
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
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
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
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. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenLima
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
BER · 147 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
8 h 0 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

MeasureDresdenLima
Official languageGermanSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation126 m154 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenLima
City population564,9049,943,800
People per km²1,7203,721
Museums within 10 km7046
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7733
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.