VacationSelector

Genoa 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, 1 point apart

Genoa
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Lima
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and good for families 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.

GenoaLima
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 36 points.36
GenoaLima
Score7337
Swim season months42
Beaches 10 km3712
Coast distance0 km6 km
Water distance0 km6 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 2 points.2
GenoaLima
Score5052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1414
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 9 points.9
GenoaLima
Score5564
Museums within 10 km4789
Museums within 2 km of centre3347
Share of museums within 2 km %7053
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 5 points.5
GenoaLima
Score5045
Drinking venues within 4 km637409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6643
Nightclubs within 4 km1763
Nature & day trips. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
GenoaLima
Score3527
Protected land share 50 km %82
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6151
Park area within 2 km29 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 18 points.18
GenoaLima
Score3856
Tourist attractions within 2 km2125
Park area within 2 km29 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 15 points.15
GenoaLima
Score6146
Notable places within 2 km13054
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 12 points.12
GenoaLima
Score6880
Price level global64.947.7
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 19 points.19
GenoaLima
Score7392
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 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
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
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. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaLima
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
10 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
CartagenaCTG
10 h 55 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
€223-292
2 stops
GOA · 7 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
no fares
GOA · 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

MeasureGenoaLima
Official languageItalianSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation20 m154 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaLima
City population558,7459,943,800
People per km²2,3253,721
Museums within 10 km5146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4133
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.