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The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Lima or Stockholm?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Lima leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Lima 88, Stockholm 64: Lima leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Lima 66, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Lima 62, Stockholm 57: Lima leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lima 45, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Lima 34, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Lima 42, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Lima 35, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. Lima 52, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Lima 70, Stockholm 30: Lima leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lima 53, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lima 25, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lima and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Lima
51match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and families 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

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). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimaStockholm
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaSwedish
CurrencySol (PEN)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m22 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaStockholm
City population9,943,800984,748
People per km²3,7215,260
Museums within 10 km47266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.