VacationSelector

Interlaken or Lima?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on value for money 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.

InterlakenLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
InterlakenLima
Score037
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km1212
Coast distance713 km6 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 23 points.23
InterlakenLima
Score2952
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1714
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 41 points.41
InterlakenLima
Score2364
Museums within 10 km589
Museums within 2 km of centre247
Share of museums within 2 km %4053
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Lima leads by 41 points.41
InterlakenLima
Score445
Drinking venues within 4 km42409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9043
Nightclubs within 4 km363
Nature & day trips. Interlaken and Lima are level on 27.
InterlakenLima
Score2727
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km5 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 42 points.42
InterlakenLima
Score1456
Tourist attractions within 2 km1125
Park area within 2 km5 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 24 points.24
InterlakenLima
Score2246
Notable places within 2 km1454
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 45 points.45
InterlakenLima
Score3580
Price level global110.547.7
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 35 points.35
InterlakenLima
Score5792
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
No sunshine record
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenLima
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
BogotaBOG
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
8 h 10 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 2026-09 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

MeasureInterlakenLima
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation571 m154 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenLima
City population6,1239,943,800
People per km²1,4243,721
Museums within 10 km346
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre2233
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). 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. 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.

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.