VacationSelector

Lima or Sydney?

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 value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

LimaSydney
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 23 points.23
LimaSydney
Score3760
Swim season months26
Beaches 10 km12160
Coast distance6 km7 km
Water distance6 km7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 26 points.26
LimaSydney
Score5278
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7962,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1431
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 13 points.13
LimaSydney
Score6451
Museums within 10 km8944
Museums within 2 km of centre4720
Share of museums within 2 km %5345
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 30 points.30
LimaSydney
Score4575
Drinking venues within 4 km4092,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1771,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4369
Nightclubs within 4 km63120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 31 points.31
LimaSydney
Score2758
Protected land share 50 km %210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5152
Park area within 2 km54 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 8 points.8
LimaSydney
Score5664
Tourist attractions within 2 km2537
Park area within 2 km54 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 14 points.14
LimaSydney
Score4660
Notable places within 2 km54123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 30 points.30
LimaSydney
Score8050
Price level global47.790.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 11 points.11
LimaSydney
Score9281
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm55 mm to 121 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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

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). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaSydney
SantiagoSCL
3 h 35 m
€181-198
LIM · 9 km
14 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
19 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureLimaSydney
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaEnglish
CurrencySol (PEN)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911000
Elevation154 m6 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaSydney
City population9,943,8005,450,496
People per km²3,721449
Museums within 10 km4638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3379
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months6 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. 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.