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Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Laguna Beach 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 Laguna Beach for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Laguna Beach’s own page.

Choose Lima for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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. Laguna Beach 72, Lima 42: Laguna Beach leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Laguna Beach 40, Lima 88: Lima leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Laguna Beach 27, Lima 66: Lima leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Laguna Beach 18, Lima 62: Lima leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Laguna Beach 73, Lima 45: Laguna Beach leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Laguna Beach 72, Lima 34: Laguna Beach leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Laguna Beach 68, Lima 42: Laguna Beach leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Laguna Beach 33, Lima 35: Lima leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Laguna Beach 46, Lima 52: Lima leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Laguna Beach 12, Lima 70: Lima leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Laguna Beach 40, Lima 53: Lima leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Laguna Beach 47, Lima 25: Laguna Beach leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Laguna Beach and Lima.

Your match

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

Laguna Beach
46match

Wins on day trips 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.

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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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Laguna BeachLima

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLaguna BeachLima
Official language-Spanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Sol (PEN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911111 or 911
Elevation6 m154 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLaguna BeachLima
City population23,0329,943,800
People per km²9073,721
Museums within 10 km247
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.