VacationSelector

Lima or Portland?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

LimaPortland
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaPortland
Score370
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km1227
Coast distance6 km69 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 22 points.22
LimaPortland
Score5274
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7961,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1444
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 29 points.29
LimaPortland
Score6435
Museums within 10 km8923
Museums within 2 km of centre4715
Share of museums within 2 km %5365
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Portland leads by 13 points.13
LimaPortland
Score4558
Drinking venues within 4 km409942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4355
Nightclubs within 4 km6332
Nature & day trips. Portland leads by 8 points.8
LimaPortland
Score2735
Protected land share 50 km %213
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 22 points.22
LimaPortland
Score5634
Tourist attractions within 2 km258
Park area within 2 km54 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 11 points.11
LimaPortland
Score4635
Notable places within 2 km5429
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaPortland
Score8043
Price level global47.7100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 27 points.27
LimaPortland
Score9265
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months123
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
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Portland
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Portland
No sunshine record

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). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaPortland
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
6 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
Salt Lake CitySLC
8 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
CancunCUN
5 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
5 h 40 m
no fares
PDX · 10 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

MeasureLimaPortland
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 m152 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaPortland
City population9,943,800652,503
People per km²3,7211,736
Museums within 10 km4617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3382
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. 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.