VacationSelector

Lima or Marseille?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Marseille
57
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.

LimaMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 30 points.30
LimaMarseille
Score3767
Swim season months22
Beaches 10 km1264
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 23 points.23
LimaMarseille
Score5275
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7961,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1439
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 14 points.14
LimaMarseille
Score6450
Museums within 10 km8933
Museums within 2 km of centre4723
Share of museums within 2 km %5370
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 3 points.3
LimaMarseille
Score4548
Drinking venues within 4 km409544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4383
Nightclubs within 4 km6330
Nature & day trips. Marseille leads by 10 points.10
LimaMarseille
Score2737
Protected land share 50 km %215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %5156
Park area within 2 km54 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 12 points.12
LimaMarseille
Score5644
Tourist attractions within 2 km2517
Park area within 2 km54 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 12 points.12
LimaMarseille
Score4658
Notable places within 2 km54111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 18 points.18
LimaMarseille
Score8062
Price level global47.773.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 17 points.17
LimaMarseille
Score9275
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm11 mm to 82 mm
Dry months126
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
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

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). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaMarseille
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 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

MeasureLimaMarseille
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaFrench
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m0 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaMarseille
City population9,943,800886,040
People per km²3,7213,683
Museums within 10 km4627
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3393
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months2 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.