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The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Lima or New Orleans?

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 New Orleans for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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, New Orleans 14: Lima leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Lima 88, New Orleans 84: Lima leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Lima 66, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Lima 62, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lima 45, New Orleans 42: Lima leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Lima 34, New Orleans 52: New Orleans leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Lima 42, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Lima 35, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Lima 52, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Lima 70, New Orleans 40: Lima leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lima 53, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lima and New Orleans are level on 25.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lima and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Lima
51match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

New Orleans
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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LimaNew Orleans

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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimaNew Orleans
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 m-2 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaNew Orleans
City population9,943,800383,997
People per km²3,721423
Museums within 10 km4716
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months7 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.