VacationSelector

Lima or Miami?

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, 1 point apart

Lima
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

LimaMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 58 points.58
LimaMiami
Score3795
Swim season months212
Beaches 10 km1220
Coast distance6 km1 km
Water distance6 km1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 13 points.13
LimaMiami
Score5265
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1429
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 41 points.41
LimaMiami
Score6423
Museums within 10 km8928
Museums within 2 km of centre476
Share of museums within 2 km %5321
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Miami leads by 5 points.5
LimaMiami
Score4550
Drinking venues within 4 km409538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4353
Nightclubs within 4 km6363
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 45 points.45
LimaMiami
Score2772
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5148
Park area within 2 km54 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 12 points.12
LimaMiami
Score5644
Tourist attractions within 2 km2514
Park area within 2 km54 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 4 points.4
LimaMiami
Score4642
Notable places within 2 km5445
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaMiami
Score8043
Price level global47.7100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 18 points.18
LimaMiami
Score9274
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Miami
No sunshine record

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). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaMiami
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
4 h 25 m
€256
LIM · 9 km
9 h 5 m
€511-537
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
BogotaBOG
2 h 55 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
SantiagoSCL
3 h 35 m
€181-198
LIM · 9 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
5 h 40 m
€348-370
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
3 h 5 m
€278-290
MIA · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
6 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 30 m
€103-188
1 stop
MIA · 7 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLimaMiami
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencySol (PEN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation154 m2 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaMiami
City population9,943,800442,241
People per km²3,7213,046
Museums within 10 km4617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3339
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 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. 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.