VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Lima?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Lima
✓ Best match
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.

HeidelbergLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
HeidelbergLima
Score037
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km612
Coast distance406 km6 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 5 points.5
HeidelbergLima
Score4752
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2614
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 5 points.5
HeidelbergLima
Score5964
Museums within 10 km5489
Museums within 2 km of centre2347
Share of museums within 2 km %4353
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Lima leads by 18 points.18
HeidelbergLima
Score2745
Drinking venues within 4 km201409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8443
Nightclubs within 4 km863
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 47 points.47
HeidelbergLima
Score7427
Protected land share 50 km %522
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km20 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 13 points.13
HeidelbergLima
Score4356
Tourist attractions within 2 km2925
Park area within 2 km20 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 10 points.10
HeidelbergLima
Score3646
Notable places within 2 km3154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 20 points.20
HeidelbergLima
Score6080
Price level global75.947.7
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 31 points.31
HeidelbergLima
Score6192
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 80 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
Heidelberg
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
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
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. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergLima
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
14 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
4 h 25 m
€256
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 69 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
BogotaBOG
11 h 20 m
no fares
FRA · 69 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

MeasureHeidelbergLima
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
Elevation114 m154 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergLima
City population162,9609,943,800
People per km²1,4963,721
Museums within 10 km1746
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre4533
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.