VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Lima?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

Fort LauderdaleLima
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 47 points.47
Fort LauderdaleLima
Score8437
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km712
Coast distance0 km6 km
Water distance0 km6 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 7 points.7
Fort LauderdaleLima
Score4552
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1814
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 44 points.44
Fort LauderdaleLima
Score2064
Museums within 10 km1489
Museums within 2 km of centre647
Share of museums within 2 km %4353
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Lima leads by 11 points.11
Fort LauderdaleLima
Score3445
Drinking venues within 4 km259409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5643
Nightclubs within 4 km1863
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 54 points.54
Fort LauderdaleLima
Score8127
Protected land share 50 km %202
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5151
Park area within 2 km45 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 37 points.37
Fort LauderdaleLima
Score1956
Tourist attractions within 2 km225
Park area within 2 km45 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 46 points.46
Fort LauderdaleLima
Score046
Notable places within 2 km254
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 37 points.37
Fort LauderdaleLima
Score4380
Price level global10047.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 16 points.16
Fort LauderdaleLima
Score7692
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleLima
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
9 h 5 m
€511-537
MIA · 41 km
4 h 25 m
€256
LIM · 9 km
SantiagoSCL
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 35 m
€181-198
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 45 m
€93-112
FLL · 7 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 5 m
€218-274
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MedellinMDE, EOH
3 h 20 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
4 h 45 m
€282-372
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

MeasureFort LauderdaleLima
Official languageSpanish, 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
Elevation11 m154 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleLima
City population182,7609,943,800
People per km²1,8293,721
Museums within 10 km646
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2533
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 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). 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.