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The Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill, Halifax
HalifaxThe Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Halifax by Danieljmacdonald, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Halifax or Lima?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Halifax for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Halifax’s own page.

Choose Lima for

  • food and drink
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Halifax 32, Lima 42: Lima leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Halifax 50, Lima 88: Lima leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Halifax 42, Lima 66: Lima leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Halifax 46, Lima 62: Lima leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Halifax 62, Lima 45: Halifax leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Halifax 63, Lima 34: Halifax leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Halifax 55, Lima 42: Halifax leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Halifax 48, Lima 35: Halifax leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Halifax 35, Lima 52: Lima leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Halifax 38, Lima 70: Lima leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Halifax 46, Lima 53: Lima leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Halifax 28, Lima 25: Halifax leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Halifax and Lima.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Halifax
45match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on food and drink and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Halifax in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Halifax: 1991-2020 normals, Shearwater Airport (6 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHalifaxLima
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Sol (PEN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911111 or 911
Elevation28 m154 m
Main airportHalifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)26 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHalifaxLima
City population440,0729,943,800
People per km²803,721
Museums within 10 km1547
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.