VacationSelector

Lima or Tampa?

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

Your match

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

LimaTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 38 points.38
LimaTampa
Score3775
Swim season months28
Beaches 10 km1210
Coast distance6 km1 km
Water distance6 km1 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 2 points.2
LimaTampa
Score5254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1431
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaTampa
Score6427
Museums within 10 km8913
Museums within 2 km of centre4710
Share of museums within 2 km %5377
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Lima leads by 6 points.6
LimaTampa
Score4539
Drinking venues within 4 km409324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4370
Nightclubs within 4 km6326
Nature & day trips. Tampa leads by 3 points.3
LimaTampa
Score2730
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5172
Park area within 2 km54 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 26 points.26
LimaTampa
Score5630
Tourist attractions within 2 km253
Park area within 2 km54 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 25 points.25
LimaTampa
Score4621
Notable places within 2 km5413
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaTampa
Score8043
Price level global47.7100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 17 points.17
LimaTampa
Score9275
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months121
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
SantiagoSCL
3 h 35 m
€181-198
LIM · 9 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
BogotaBOG
2 h 55 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 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

MeasureLimaTampa
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencySol (PEN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation154 m30 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaTampa
City population9,943,800384,959
People per km²3,721848
Museums within 10 km466
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3347
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months8 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.