VacationSelector

Lima or Tallinn?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

LimaTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 17 points.17
LimaTallinn
Score3754
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km1218
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
LimaTallinn
Score5262
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1439
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 2 points.2
LimaTallinn
Score6462
Museums within 10 km8971
Museums within 2 km of centre4757
Share of museums within 2 km %5380
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 1 points.1
LimaTallinn
Score4546
Drinking venues within 4 km409462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4380
Nightclubs within 4 km6343
Nature & day trips. Tallinn leads by 4 points.4
LimaTallinn
Score2731
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5153
Park area within 2 km54 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 5 points.5
LimaTallinn
Score5651
Tourist attractions within 2 km2520
Park area within 2 km54 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 16 points.16
LimaTallinn
Score4662
Notable places within 2 km54135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 10 points.10
LimaTallinn
Score8070
Price level global47.762.4
Daily budget€143
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 44 points.44
LimaTallinn
Score9248
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months124
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
3
1
1

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). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLimaTallinn
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 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

MeasureLimaTallinn
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaEstonian
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m28 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaTallinn
City population9,943,800457,572
People per km²3,7212,871
Museums within 10 km4615
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3363
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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.