VacationSelector

Lima or Montpellier?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

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

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

LimaMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 5 points.5
LimaMontpellier
Score3732
Swim season months22
Beaches 10 km128
Coast distance6 km9 km
Water distance6 km9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 13 points.13
LimaMontpellier
Score5265
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1434
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 38 points.38
LimaMontpellier
Score6426
Museums within 10 km8914
Museums within 2 km of centre473
Share of museums within 2 km %5321
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Lima leads by 7 points.7
LimaMontpellier
Score4538
Drinking venues within 4 km409318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4383
Nightclubs within 4 km6325
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 16 points.16
LimaMontpellier
Score2743
Protected land share 50 km %215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %5170
Park area within 2 km54 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 12 points.12
LimaMontpellier
Score5644
Tourist attractions within 2 km258
Park area within 2 km54 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km47
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 8 points.8
LimaMontpellier
Score4638
Notable places within 2 km5435
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 18 points.18
LimaMontpellier
Score8062
Price level global47.773.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 18 points.18
LimaMontpellier
Score9274
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months125
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
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Montpellier
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
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5

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). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 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

MeasureLimaMontpellier
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 m7 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaMontpellier
City population9,943,800310,240
People per km²3,7215,452
Museums within 10 km4614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3365
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.