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The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Lima or Nashville?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Lima for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’s own page.

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Lima 42, Nashville 14: Lima leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Lima 88, Nashville 62: Lima leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Lima 66, Nashville 50: Lima leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Lima 62, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lima 45, Nashville 46: Nashville leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Lima 34, Nashville 52: Nashville leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Lima 42, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Lima 35, Nashville 30: Lima leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Lima 52, Nashville 42: Lima leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Lima 70, Nashville 30: Lima leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lima 53, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lima 25, Nashville 20: Lima leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lima and Nashville.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimaNashville
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua-
CurrencySol (PEN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation154 m182 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaNashville
City population9,943,800689,447
People per km²3,721506
Museums within 10 km4712
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.