VacationSelector

Lima or Lisbon?

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

Your match

Lima
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

LimaLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 20 points.20
LimaLisbon
Score3757
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km1224
Coast distance6 km2 km
Water distance6 km2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 28 points.28
LimaLisbon
Score5280
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7962,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1431
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
LimaLisbon
Score6470
Museums within 10 km89124
Museums within 2 km of centre4754
Share of museums within 2 km %5344
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 20 points.20
LimaLisbon
Score4565
Drinking venues within 4 km4091,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4378
Nightclubs within 4 km6365
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 29 points.29
LimaLisbon
Score2756
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5154
Park area within 2 km54 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 13 points.13
LimaLisbon
Score5669
Tourist attractions within 2 km2582
Park area within 2 km54 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 20 points.20
LimaLisbon
Score4666
Notable places within 2 km54169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 6 points.6
LimaLisbon
Score8074
Price level global47.755.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 14 points.14
LimaLisbon
Score9278
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months124
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5

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). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaLisbon
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
10 h 0 m
€744-1049
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 25 m
€480-569
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
6 h 50 m
€532-732
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
LIS · 7 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLimaLisbon
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaPortuguese
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m100 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaLisbon
City population9,943,800545,796
People per km²3,7215,453
Museums within 10 km4678
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre33106
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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. 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.