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The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Lima or Marmaris?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Lima for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’s own page.

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Lima 42, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Lima 88, Marmaris 40: Lima leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Lima 66, Marmaris 18: Lima leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Lima 62, Marmaris 60: Lima leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lima 45, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Lima 34, Marmaris 65: Marmaris leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Lima 42, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Lima 35, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Lima 52, Marmaris 38: Lima leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Lima 70, Marmaris 62: Lima leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lima 53, Marmaris 12: Lima leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lima 25, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lima and Marmaris.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Lima
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Wins on food and drink and culture and sights with your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimaMarmaris
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaTurkish
CurrencySol (PEN)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+3
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m7 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaMarmaris
City population9,943,80097,818
People per km²3,721111
Museums within 10 km471
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months6 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.