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The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Lima or Saint-Tropez?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Lima for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’s own page.

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Lima 42, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Lima 88, Saint-Tropez 48: Lima leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Lima 66, Saint-Tropez 35: Lima leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Lima 62, Saint-Tropez 60: Lima leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lima 45, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Lima 34, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Lima and Saint-Tropez are level on 42.
Getting around. Lima 35, Saint-Tropez 32: Lima leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Lima 52, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Lima 70, Saint-Tropez 8: Lima leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lima 53, Saint-Tropez 18: Lima leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lima 25, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lima and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Saint-Tropez has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimaSaint-Tropez
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaFrench
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m0 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaSaint-Tropez
City population9,943,8003,582
People per km²3,721320
Museums within 10 km474
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months3 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.