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The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor
The Dzhumaya Mosque, Plovdiv
PlovdivThe Dzhumaya Mosque

Photos: Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Plovdiv by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Lima or Plovdiv?

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
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Plovdiv for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Plovdiv’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, Plovdiv 7: Lima leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Lima 88, Plovdiv 50: Lima leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Lima and Plovdiv are level on 66.
Nightlife. Lima 62, Plovdiv 42: Lima leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lima 45, Plovdiv 68: Plovdiv leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Lima 34, Plovdiv 70: Plovdiv leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Lima 42, Plovdiv 40: Lima leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Lima 35, Plovdiv 65: Plovdiv leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Lima 52, Plovdiv 33: Lima leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Lima 70, Plovdiv 78: Plovdiv leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lima 53, Plovdiv 42: Lima leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lima 25, Plovdiv 44: Plovdiv leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lima and Plovdiv.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Lima
51match

Wins on food and drink and beaches with your weighting.

Plovdiv
50match

Wins on day trips and getting around 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

Plovdiv in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Plovdiv 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.

Plovdiv's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Kurdjali.

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). Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimaPlovdiv
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaBulgarian
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m172 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaPlovdiv
City population9,943,800333,994
People per km²3,7213,274
Museums within 10 km4718
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.