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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Key West 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 Key West for

  • getting around
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Lima for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • 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. Key West 60, Lima 42: Key West leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Key West 45, Lima 88: Lima leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Lima 66: Lima leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Key West and Lima are level on 62.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Lima 45: Key West leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Lima 34: Lima leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Lima 42: Lima leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Lima 35: Key West leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Lima 52: Lima leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Lima 70: Lima leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Lima 53: Lima leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Lima 25: Key West leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West and Lima.

Your match

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

Key West
44match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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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Where the figures come from

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestLima
Official language-Spanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Sol (PEN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911111 or 911
Elevation4 m154 m
Main airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKey WestLima
City population26,4449,943,800
People per km²1,4073,721
Museums within 10 km747
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.