VacationSelector

Lima or New Orleans?

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 value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

New Orleans
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.

LimaNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 2 points.2
LimaNew Orleans
Score3739
Swim season months27
Beaches 10 km123
Coast distance6 km21 km
Water distance6 km17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 9 points.9
LimaNew Orleans
Score5261
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1425
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 19 points.19
LimaNew Orleans
Score6445
Museums within 10 km8942
Museums within 2 km of centre4730
Share of museums within 2 km %5371
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 9 points.9
LimaNew Orleans
Score4554
Drinking venues within 4 km409704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4370
Nightclubs within 4 km6341
Nature & day trips. Lima leads by 2 points.2
LimaNew Orleans
Score2725
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5189
Park area within 2 km54 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 10 points.10
LimaNew Orleans
Score5646
Tourist attractions within 2 km2522
Park area within 2 km54 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 6 points.6
LimaNew Orleans
Score4640
Notable places within 2 km5440
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaNew Orleans
Score8043
Price level global47.7100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 24 points.24
LimaNew Orleans
Score9268
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm94 mm to 194 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
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
New Orleans
No sunshine record

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

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLimaNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€178-367
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
6 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
CancunCUN
5 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
Salt Lake CitySLC
8 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
MSY · 18 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 2026-09 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

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 centre63 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaNew Orleans
City population9,943,800383,997
People per km²3,721423
Museums within 10 km4616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3339
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months7 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.