VacationSelector

Lima or Montreal?

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

Montreal
47
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

LimaMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaMontreal
Score370
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance6 km276 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 22 points.22
LimaMontreal
Score5274
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7961,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1449
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 27 points.27
LimaMontreal
Score6437
Museums within 10 km8939
Museums within 2 km of centre4719
Share of museums within 2 km %5349
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 17 points.17
LimaMontreal
Score4562
Drinking venues within 4 km4091,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4349
Nightclubs within 4 km6374
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 9 points.9
LimaMontreal
Score2736
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 6 points.6
LimaMontreal
Score5650
Tourist attractions within 2 km2511
Park area within 2 km54 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 10 points.10
LimaMontreal
Score4656
Notable places within 2 km5498
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 26 points.26
LimaMontreal
Score8054
Price level global47.784
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 42 points.42
LimaMontreal
Score9250
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm69 mm to 121 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
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Montreal
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
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3

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). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaMontreal
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
SantiagoSCL
3 h 35 m
€181-198
LIM · 9 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
CancunCUN
5 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
YUL · 16 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

MeasureLimaMontreal
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaFrench, English
CurrencySol (PEN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation154 m31 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaMontreal
City population9,943,8001,895,211
People per km²3,7213,806
Museums within 10 km4637
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3397
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. 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.