VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Lima?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Lima
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

Hong KongLima
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 50 points.50
Hong KongLima
Score8737
Swim season months82
Beaches 10 km6512
Coast distance0 km6 km
Water distance0 km6 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 36 points.36
Hong KongLima
Score8852
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3214
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 28 points.28
Hong KongLima
Score3664
Museums within 10 km5089
Museums within 2 km of centre1747
Share of museums within 2 km %3453
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 26 points.26
Hong KongLima
Score7145
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5943
Nightclubs within 4 km3763
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 37 points.37
Hong KongLima
Score6427
Protected land share 50 km %82
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2951
Park area within 2 km52 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 2 points.2
Hong KongLima
Score5856
Tourist attractions within 2 km2725
Park area within 2 km52 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 23 points.23
Hong KongLima
Score6946
Notable places within 2 km20454
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 17 points.17
Hong KongLima
Score6380
Price level global7247.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 18 points.18
Hong KongLima
Score7492
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm0 mm to 1 mm
Dry months412
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongLima
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
5 h 40 m
€348-370
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 25 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

MeasureHong KongLima
Official languageStandard ChineseSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Sol (PEN)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5
Emergency number999111 or 911
Elevation7 m154 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongLima
City population7,413,0709,943,800
People per km²3,721
Museums within 10 km3946
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7633
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.