VacationSelector

Lima or Malaga?

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 museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

LimaMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 29 points.29
LimaMalaga
Score3766
Swim season months23
Beaches 10 km1221
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 17 points.17
LimaMalaga
Score5269
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7961,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1434
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 11 points.11
LimaMalaga
Score6453
Museums within 10 km8940
Museums within 2 km of centre4735
Share of museums within 2 km %5388
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 9 points.9
LimaMalaga
Score4554
Drinking venues within 4 km409715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4368
Nightclubs within 4 km6345
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 16 points.16
LimaMalaga
Score2743
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5163
Park area within 2 km54 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 3 points.3
LimaMalaga
Score5653
Tourist attractions within 2 km2533
Park area within 2 km54 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 9 points.9
LimaMalaga
Score4637
Notable places within 2 km5433
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 9 points.9
LimaMalaga
Score8071
Price level global47.760.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 10 points.10
LimaMalaga
Score9282
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months125
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
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). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaMalaga
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 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

MeasureLimaMalaga
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaSpanish
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m18 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaMalaga
City population9,943,800599,063
People per km²3,7211,517
Museums within 10 km4632
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3365
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months3 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. 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.