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The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Lima or Rehoboth Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • prices

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Rehoboth Beach’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, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Lima 88, Rehoboth Beach 44: Lima leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Lima 66, Rehoboth Beach 14: Lima leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Lima 62, Rehoboth Beach 40: Lima leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lima 45, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Lima 34, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Lima 42, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Lima 35, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Lima 52, Rehoboth Beach 45: Lima leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Lima 70, Rehoboth Beach 32: Lima leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lima 53, Rehoboth Beach 28: Lima leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lima 25, Rehoboth Beach 32: Rehoboth Beach leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lima and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Rehoboth Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
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

Rehoboth Beach 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.

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). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimaRehoboth Beach
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua-
CurrencySol (PEN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation154 m5 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaRehoboth Beach
City population9,943,8001,108
People per km²3,721258
Museums within 10 km472
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months3 months

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.