VacationSelector

Frankfurt or Lima?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Frankfurt
57
match

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

Lima
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.

FrankfurtLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
FrankfurtLima
Score037
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km412
Coast distance327 km6 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 18 points.18
FrankfurtLima
Score7052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,160796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3114
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 5 points.5
FrankfurtLima
Score6964
Museums within 10 km7989
Museums within 2 km of centre4347
Share of museums within 2 km %5453
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 14 points.14
FrankfurtLima
Score5945
Drinking venues within 4 km931409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7443
Nightclubs within 4 km5663
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 37 points.37
FrankfurtLima
Score6427
Protected land share 50 km %282
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km124 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 12 points.12
FrankfurtLima
Score6856
Tourist attractions within 2 km4525
Park area within 2 km124 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 15 points.15
FrankfurtLima
Score6146
Notable places within 2 km12954
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 20 points.20
FrankfurtLima
Score6080
Price level global75.947.7
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 30 points.30
FrankfurtLima
Score6292
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm0 mm to 1 mm
Dry months112
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
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
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
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. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtLima
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
14 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
4 h 25 m
€256
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 13 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 13 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 13 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
BogotaBOG
11 h 20 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 55 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

MeasureFrankfurtLima
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
Elevation101 m154 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtLima
City population775,7909,943,800
People per km²3,1243,721
Museums within 10 km5346
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre7133
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.