VacationSelector

Lima or Los Angeles?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Lima
55
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Los Angeles
53
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.

LimaLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 8 points.8
LimaLos Angeles
Score3729
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance6 km—
Water distance6 km—
Beaches 25 km—11
Warmest sea temp—20.2 °C
Scoring variant—beachScoreWideRing
Declared—2026-08-25
Register—seed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 14 points.14
LimaLos Angeles
Score5266
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7961,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1422
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 15 points.15
LimaLos Angeles
Score6449
Museums within 10 km8969
Museums within 2 km of centre4723
Share of museums within 2 km %5333
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 9 points.9
LimaLos Angeles
Score4554
Drinking venues within 4 km409660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4365
Nightclubs within 4 km6364
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 35 points.35
LimaLos Angeles
Score2762
Protected land share 50 km %226
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5180
Park area within 2 km54 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 23 points.23
LimaLos Angeles
Score5633
Tourist attractions within 2 km2511
Park area within 2 km54 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 8 points.8
LimaLos Angeles
Score4654
Notable places within 2 km5488
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaLos Angeles
Score8043
Price level global47.7100
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 5 points.5
LimaLos Angeles
Score9287
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm0 mm to 76 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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F
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A
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J
A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

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). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLimaLos Angeles
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
SantiagoSCL
3 h 35 m
€181-198
LIM · 9 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
5 h 40 m
€348-370
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
3 h 35 m
€261-303
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
Salt Lake CitySLC
8 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
4 h 20 m
€288
LAX · 19 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
6 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
3 h 15 m
€173-245
LAX · 19 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

MeasureLimaLos Angeles
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua–
CurrencySol (PEN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation154 m106 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaLos Angeles
City population9,943,8003,898,747
People per km²3,7212,994
Museums within 10 km4638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3346
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.