VacationSelector

Lima or Pisa?

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 year-round weather and places to eat with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration 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.

LimaPisa
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 16 points.16
LimaPisa
Score3721
Swim season months24
Beaches 10 km121
Coast distance6 km10 km
Water distance6 km10 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 18 points.18
LimaPisa
Score5234
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km149
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 9 points.9
LimaPisa
Score6455
Museums within 10 km8927
Museums within 2 km of centre4722
Share of museums within 2 km %5381
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Lima leads by 17 points.17
LimaPisa
Score4528
Drinking venues within 4 km409232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4388
Nightclubs within 4 km633
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 12 points.12
LimaPisa
Score2739
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5165
Park area within 2 km54 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 9 points.9
LimaPisa
Score5647
Tourist attractions within 2 km2520
Park area within 2 km54 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 1 points.1
LimaPisa
Score4647
Notable places within 2 km5458
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 12 points.12
LimaPisa
Score8068
Price level global47.764.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 22 points.22
LimaPisa
Score9270
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months122
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

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). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaPisa
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 65 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLimaPisa
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaItalian
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m4 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaPisa
City population9,943,80088,737
People per km²3,721479
Museums within 10 km4627
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre3329
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months4 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.