VacationSelector

Lima or Prague?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Lima
55
match

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

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

LimaPrague
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaPrague
Score370
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance6 km10,000 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 23 points.23
LimaPrague
Score5275
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7961,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1429
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 8 points.8
LimaPrague
Score6472
Museums within 10 km89138
Museums within 2 km of centre47100
Share of museums within 2 km %5372
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Prague leads by 32 points.32
LimaPrague
Score4577
Drinking venues within 4 km4092,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1771,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4365
Nightclubs within 4 km63123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 18 points.18
LimaPrague
Score2745
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 19 points.19
LimaPrague
Score5675
Tourist attractions within 2 km2554
Park area within 2 km54 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 30 points.30
LimaPrague
Score4676
Notable places within 2 km54310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 5 points.5
LimaPrague
Score8075
Price level global47.755.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 31 points.31
LimaPrague
Score9261
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months127
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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

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). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaPrague
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 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

MeasureLimaPrague
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaCzech
CurrencySol (PEN)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m235 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaPrague
City population9,943,8001,397,880
People per km²3,7212,817
Museums within 10 km4688
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3389
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. 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.