VacationSelector

Lima or Limassol?

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

Your match

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

LimaLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 42 points.42
LimaLimassol
Score3779
Swim season months26
Beaches 10 km1227
Coast distance6 km1 km
Water distance6 km1 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 9 points.9
LimaLimassol
Score5243
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1419
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 20 points.20
LimaLimassol
Score6444
Museums within 10 km8917
Museums within 2 km of centre4710
Share of museums within 2 km %5359
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Lima leads by 6 points.6
LimaLimassol
Score4539
Drinking venues within 4 km409340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4375
Nightclubs within 4 km6320
Nature & day trips. Lima leads by 5 points.5
LimaLimassol
Score2722
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5149
Park area within 2 km54 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 40 points.40
LimaLimassol
Score5616
Tourist attractions within 2 km253
Park area within 2 km54 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 32 points.32
LimaLimassol
Score4614
Notable places within 2 km549
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 10 points.10
LimaLimassol
Score8070
Price level global47.761.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 7 points.7
LimaLimassol
Score9285
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months128
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
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaLimassol
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 58 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

MeasureLimaLimassol
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m10 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaLimassol
City population9,943,800107,970
People per km²3,7212,405
Museums within 10 km462
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre3328
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months6 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). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.