VacationSelector

Lima or Lucerne?

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

Lucerne
33
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LimaLucerne
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaLucerne
Score370
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km1216
Coast distance6 km669 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 5 points.5
LimaLucerne
Score5247
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1425
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 24 points.24
LimaLucerne
Score6440
Museums within 10 km8923
Museums within 2 km of centre4713
Share of museums within 2 km %5357
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Lima leads by 17 points.17
LimaLucerne
Score4528
Drinking venues within 4 km409202
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177151
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4375
Nightclubs within 4 km6311
Nature & day trips. Lima leads by 2 points.2
LimaLucerne
Score2725
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 18 points.18
LimaLucerne
Score5638
Tourist attractions within 2 km2515
Park area within 2 km54 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 11 points.11
LimaLucerne
Score4635
Notable places within 2 km5429
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 45 points.45
LimaLucerne
Score8035
Price level global47.7110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 39 points.39
LimaLucerne
Score9253
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm60 mm to 128 mm
Dry months120
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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

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). Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaLucerne
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 49 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
BogotaBOG
2 h 55 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 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

MeasureLimaLucerne
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencySol (PEN)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m436 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaLucerne
City population9,943,80086,234
People per km²3,7212,963
Museums within 10 km4614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3346
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.