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The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Lima or Melbourne?

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

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Melbourne for

  • getting around
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’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, Melbourne 50: Melbourne leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Lima 88, Melbourne 75: Lima leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Lima 66, Melbourne 57: Lima leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Lima 62, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lima 45, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Lima 34, Melbourne 62: Melbourne leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Lima 42, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Lima 35, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Lima 52, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Lima 70, Melbourne 31: Lima leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lima 53, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lima 25, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 29 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lima and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Lima
51match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and families 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

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimaMelbourne
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaEnglish
CurrencySol (PEN)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911000
Elevation154 m31 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaMelbourne
City population9,943,8005,350,705
People per km²3,721535
Museums within 10 km4743
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.