VacationSelector

Lima or Oslo?

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, 1 point apart

Lima
55
match

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

Oslo
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

LimaOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 23 points.23
LimaOslo
Score3760
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km12163
Coast distance6 km1 km
Water distance6 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 15 points.15
LimaOslo
Score5267
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1434
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 16 points.16
LimaOslo
Score6448
Museums within 10 km8970
Museums within 2 km of centre4737
Share of museums within 2 km %5353
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 8 points.8
LimaOslo
Score4553
Drinking venues within 4 km409695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4381
Nightclubs within 4 km6341
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 34 points.34
LimaOslo
Score2761
Protected land share 50 km %222
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %5194
Park area within 2 km54 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 8 points.8
LimaOslo
Score5648
Tourist attractions within 2 km2513
Park area within 2 km54 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 23 points.23
LimaOslo
Score4669
Notable places within 2 km54207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 26 points.26
LimaOslo
Score8054
Price level global47.785.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 44 points.44
LimaOslo
Score9248
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

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). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaOslo
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
3 h 30 m
€110-169
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
3 h 15 m
€109-152
1 stop
OSL · 37 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

MeasureLimaOslo
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencySol (PEN)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation154 m23 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaOslo
City population9,943,800717,710
People per km²3,721
Museums within 10 km4660
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3375
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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. 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.