VacationSelector

Lima or Seattle?

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

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

LimaSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 23 points.23
LimaSeattle
Score3760
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km12100
Coast distance6 km1 km
Water distance6 km1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 23 points.23
LimaSeattle
Score5275
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7961,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1435
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 28 points.28
LimaSeattle
Score6436
Museums within 10 km8928
Museums within 2 km of centre4717
Share of museums within 2 km %5361
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 12 points.12
LimaSeattle
Score4557
Drinking venues within 4 km409873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4380
Nightclubs within 4 km6334
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 13 points.13
LimaSeattle
Score2740
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5180
Park area within 2 km54 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 10 points.10
LimaSeattle
Score5646
Tourist attractions within 2 km2517
Park area within 2 km54 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 6 points.6
LimaSeattle
Score4652
Notable places within 2 km5476
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaSeattle
Score8043
Price level global47.7100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 31 points.31
LimaSeattle
Score9261
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm15 mm to 160 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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Seattle
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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaSeattle
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
4 h 35 m
€325-346
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
5 h 40 m
€348-370
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
6 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
Salt Lake CitySLC
8 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
YYJ · 142 km
CancunCUN
5 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 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

MeasureLimaSeattle
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 m40 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaSeattle
City population9,943,800737,015
People per km²3,7211,996
Museums within 10 km4627
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3378
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. 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.