VacationSelector

Ghent or Lima?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

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

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

GhentLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 11 points.11
GhentLima
Score2637
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km812
Coast distance32 km6 km
Water distance32 km6 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 18 points.18
GhentLima
Score7052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre764796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4914
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 6 points.6
GhentLima
Score5864
Museums within 10 km2489
Museums within 2 km of centre2047
Share of museums within 2 km %8353
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 4 points.4
GhentLima
Score4945
Drinking venues within 4 km570409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7843
Nightclubs within 4 km2663
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 7 points.7
GhentLima
Score3427
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8751
Park area within 2 km84 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 6 points.6
GhentLima
Score5056
Tourist attractions within 2 km1925
Park area within 2 km84 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Ghent and Lima are level on 46.
GhentLima
Score4646
Notable places within 2 km5554
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 20 points.20
GhentLima
Score6080
Price level global76.247.7
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 36 points.36
GhentLima
Score5692
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
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
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromGhentLima
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 56 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
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 2026-08 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

MeasureGhentLima
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation12 m154 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentLima
City population272,6579,943,800
People per km²1,7283,721
Museums within 10 km3046
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre8333
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.