VacationSelector

Lima or Milan?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

LimaMilan
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaMilan
Score370
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km124
Coast distance6 km120 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Milan leads by 18 points.18
LimaMilan
Score5270
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7961,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1420
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 10 points.10
LimaMilan
Score6474
Museums within 10 km8987
Museums within 2 km of centre4755
Share of museums within 2 km %5363
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Milan leads by 30 points.30
LimaMilan
Score4575
Drinking venues within 4 km4092,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4343
Nightclubs within 4 km6370
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 38 points.38
LimaMilan
Score2765
Protected land share 50 km %230
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 21 points.21
LimaMilan
Score5677
Tourist attractions within 2 km2576
Park area within 2 km54 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 28 points.28
LimaMilan
Score4674
Notable places within 2 km54266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 12 points.12
LimaMilan
Score8068
Price level global47.764.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 28 points.28
LimaMilan
Score9264
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Milan
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2

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). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaMilan
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 40 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

MeasureLimaMilan
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaItalian
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m138 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaMilan
City population9,943,8001,354,196
People per km²3,7217,453
Museums within 10 km4687
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre3379
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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.