VacationSelector

Lima or Seville?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Lima
55
match

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

Seville
54
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

LimaSeville
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaSeville
Score370
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km122
Coast distance6 km65 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Seville leads by 14 points.14
LimaSeville
Score5266
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7961,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1422
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 8 points.8
LimaSeville
Score6456
Museums within 10 km8950
Museums within 2 km of centre4740
Share of museums within 2 km %5380
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Seville leads by 17 points.17
LimaSeville
Score4562
Drinking venues within 4 km4091,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4362
Nightclubs within 4 km6357
Nature & day trips. Seville leads by 10 points.10
LimaSeville
Score2737
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 9 points.9
LimaSeville
Score5665
Tourist attractions within 2 km2547
Park area within 2 km54 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 9 points.9
LimaSeville
Score4655
Notable places within 2 km5492
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 9 points.9
LimaSeville
Score8071
Price level global47.760.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 17 points.17
LimaSeville
Score9275
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months125
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
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Seville
6
7
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
8
6
5

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). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaSeville
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureLimaSeville
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 m18 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaSeville
City population9,943,800689,423
People per km²3,7214,896
Museums within 10 km4624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3352
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. 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.