VacationSelector

Lima or Reykjavik?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

LimaReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 23 points.23
LimaReykjavik
Score3760
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km1233
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 3 points.3
LimaReykjavik
Score5249
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1429
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 14 points.14
LimaReykjavik
Score6450
Museums within 10 km8934
Museums within 2 km of centre4723
Share of museums within 2 km %5368
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Lima leads by 18 points.18
LimaReykjavik
Score4527
Drinking venues within 4 km409192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4386
Nightclubs within 4 km6310
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 32 points.32
LimaReykjavik
Score2759
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5156
Park area within 2 km54 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 14 points.14
LimaReykjavik
Score5642
Tourist attractions within 2 km2521
Park area within 2 km54 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 2 points.2
LimaReykjavik
Score4648
Notable places within 2 km5461
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 39 points.39
LimaReykjavik
Score8041
Price level global47.7102.8
Daily budget€243
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 55 points.55
LimaReykjavik
Score9237
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months120
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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

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). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaReykjavik
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
5 h 35 m
€426-480
KEF · 37 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
4 h 5 m
€222-314
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
4 h 10 m
€224-296
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
KEF · 37 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

MeasureLimaReykjavik
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaIcelandic
CurrencySol (PEN)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m8 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaReykjavik
City population9,943,800138,772
People per km²3,721569
Museums within 10 km4623
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3342
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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.