VacationSelector

Lima or Plovdiv?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

LimaPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaPlovdiv
Score370
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km121
Coast distance6 km130 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 6 points.6
LimaPlovdiv
Score5246
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1419
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 26 points.26
LimaPlovdiv
Score6438
Museums within 10 km8926
Museums within 2 km of centre4726
Share of museums within 2 km %53100
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Lima leads by 3 points.3
LimaPlovdiv
Score4542
Drinking venues within 4 km409392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4373
Nightclubs within 4 km6326
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 10 points.10
LimaPlovdiv
Score2737
Protected land share 50 km %25
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 25 points.25
LimaPlovdiv
Score5631
Tourist attractions within 2 km255
Park area within 2 km54 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 5 points.5
LimaPlovdiv
Score4641
Notable places within 2 km5441
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 19 points.19
LimaPlovdiv
Score8099
Price level global47.721.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 27 points.27
LimaPlovdiv
Score9265
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months122
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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
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Plovdiv
10
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
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

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

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaPlovdiv
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 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

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 centre63 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaPlovdiv
City population9,943,800333,994
People per km²3,7213,274
Museums within 10 km4618
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3336
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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.