VacationSelector

Lima or Santiago de Compostela?

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.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on 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.

LimaSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaSantiago de Compostela
Score370
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance6 km26 km
Water distance6 km26 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 4 points.4
LimaSantiago de Compostela
Score5248
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1423
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 20 points.20
LimaSantiago de Compostela
Score6444
Museums within 10 km8916
Museums within 2 km of centre4714
Share of museums within 2 km %5388
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Lima leads by 9 points.9
LimaSantiago de Compostela
Score4536
Drinking venues within 4 km409306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4388
Nightclubs within 4 km6313
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 19 points.19
LimaSantiago de Compostela
Score2746
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5192
Park area within 2 km54 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 29 points.29
LimaSantiago de Compostela
Score5627
Tourist attractions within 2 km252
Park area within 2 km54 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 4 points.4
LimaSantiago de Compostela
Score4642
Notable places within 2 km5444
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 9 points.9
LimaSantiago de Compostela
Score8071
Price level global47.760.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 30 points.30
LimaSantiago de Compostela
Score9262
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm41 mm to 223 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
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Santiago de Compostela
9
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
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
3
3

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). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaSantiago de Compostela
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLimaSantiago de Compostela
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaSpanish
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m260 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaSantiago de Compostela
City population9,943,800100,965
People per km²3,721459
Museums within 10 km466
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3338
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. 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.