VacationSelector

Kuala Lumpur or Lima?

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

Your match

Kuala Lumpur
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Lima
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage 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.

Kuala LumpurLima
Beaches & swimming. Kuala Lumpur leads by 3 points.3
Kuala LumpurLima
Score4037
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km012
Coast distance38 km6 km
Water distance36 km6 km
Places to eat. Kuala Lumpur leads by 26 points.26
Kuala LumpurLima
Score7852
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,358796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2814
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 13 points.13
Kuala LumpurLima
Score5164
Museums within 10 km4189
Museums within 2 km of centre2647
Share of museums within 2 km %6353
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Kuala Lumpur leads by 22 points.22
Kuala LumpurLima
Score6745
Drinking venues within 4 km1,308409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre735177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5643
Nightclubs within 4 km12663
Nature & day trips. Kuala Lumpur leads by 42 points.42
Kuala LumpurLima
Score6927
Protected land share 50 km %282
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9751
Park area within 2 km70 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Kuala Lumpur leads by 4 points.4
Kuala LumpurLima
Score6056
Tourist attractions within 2 km2625
Park area within 2 km70 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Kuala Lumpur leads by 5 points.5
Kuala LumpurLima
Score5146
Notable places within 2 km7554
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kuala Lumpur leads by 12 points.12
Kuala LumpurLima
Score9280
Price level global30.647.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 40 points.40
Kuala LumpurLima
Score5292
Monthly daytime high31.9 °C to 33.7 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall145 mm to 360 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
Kuala Lumpur
33
33
34
34
34
33
33
33
33
33
32
32
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Kuala Lumpur
29
29
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
29
29
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Kuala Lumpur
227
197
270
296
232
145
169
178
215
284
360
281
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Kuala Lumpur
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Kuala Lumpur
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. Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKuala LumpurLima
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 55 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 45 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
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

MeasureKuala LumpurLima
Official languageMalaySpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyMalaysian Ringgit (MYR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5
Emergency number999111 or 911
Elevation50 m154 m
Main airportKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKuala LumpurLima
City population9,000,2809,943,800
People per km²36,9323,721
Museums within 10 km2546
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre6933
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.