VacationSelector

Lima or Munich?

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, 2 points apart

Lima
55
match

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

Munich
57
match

Wins on good for families 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.

LimaMunich
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaMunich
Score370
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km126
Coast distance6 km579 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 21 points.21
LimaMunich
Score5273
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7961,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1435
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 3 points.3
LimaMunich
Score6461
Museums within 10 km8974
Museums within 2 km of centre4748
Share of museums within 2 km %5365
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Munich leads by 22 points.22
LimaMunich
Score4567
Drinking venues within 4 km4091,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4357
Nightclubs within 4 km63103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 21 points.21
LimaMunich
Score2748
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 23 points.23
LimaMunich
Score5679
Tourist attractions within 2 km2580
Park area within 2 km54 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 22 points.22
LimaMunich
Score4668
Notable places within 2 km54196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 20 points.20
LimaMunich
Score8060
Price level global47.775.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 36 points.36
LimaMunich
Score9256
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm46 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
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). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLimaMunich
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
5 h 40 m
€348-370
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureLimaMunich
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaGerman
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m519 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaMunich
City population9,943,8001,510,378
People per km²3,7214,861
Museums within 10 km4674
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3389
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.