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The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor
Palm Springs

Photos: Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Lima or Palm Springs?

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

  • food and drink
  • prices
  • beaches

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

Choose Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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, Palm Springs 7: Lima leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Lima 88, Palm Springs 40: Lima leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Lima 66, Palm Springs 42: Lima leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Lima 62, Palm Springs 36: Lima leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lima 45, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Lima 34, Palm Springs 38: Palm Springs leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Lima 42, Palm Springs 40: Lima leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Lima 35, Palm Springs 22: Lima leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Lima 52, Palm Springs 44: Lima leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Lima 70, Palm Springs 32: Lima leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lima 53, Palm Springs 40: Lima leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lima 25, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 55 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lima and Palm Springs.

Your match

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

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on food and drink and prices with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 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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Where the figures come from

Palm Springs has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimaPalm Springs
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua-
CurrencySol (PEN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation154 m146 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaPalm Springs
City population9,943,80044,575
People per km²3,721181
Museums within 10 km473
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.