VacationSelector

Lima or Singapore?

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

Your match

Lima
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
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.

LimaSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 63 points.63
LimaSingapore
Score37100
Swim season months212
Beaches 10 km1242
Coast distance6 km2 km
Water distance6 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 35 points.35
LimaSingapore
Score5287
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7964,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1431
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 14 points.14
LimaSingapore
Score6450
Museums within 10 km8957
Museums within 2 km of centre4726
Share of museums within 2 km %5346
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 29 points.29
LimaSingapore
Score4574
Drinking venues within 4 km4091,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1771,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4371
Nightclubs within 4 km6377
Nature & day trips. Singapore leads by 7 points.7
LimaSingapore
Score2734
Protected land share 50 km %21
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5153
Park area within 2 km54 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 12 points.12
LimaSingapore
Score5668
Tourist attractions within 2 km2528
Park area within 2 km54 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 20 points.20
LimaSingapore
Score4666
Notable places within 2 km54172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 10 points.10
LimaSingapore
Score8070
Price level global47.762
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 30 points.30
LimaSingapore
Score9262
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm109 mm to 329 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
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
4

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). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaSingapore
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 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

MeasureLimaSingapore
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencySol (PEN)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+8
Emergency number111 or 911Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation154 m21 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaSingapore
City population9,943,8005,866,139
People per km²3,7218,158
Museums within 10 km4640
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre33107
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.