VacationSelector

Lima or The Hague?

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, 2 points apart

Lima
55
match

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

The Hague
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

LimaThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 23 points.23
LimaThe Hague
Score3760
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km1234
Coast distance6 km3 km
Water distance6 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 18 points.18
LimaThe Hague
Score5270
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1443
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 2 points.2
LimaThe Hague
Score6462
Museums within 10 km8946
Museums within 2 km of centre4726
Share of museums within 2 km %5357
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
LimaThe Hague
Score4546
Drinking venues within 4 km409511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4356
Nightclubs within 4 km6319
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 27 points.27
LimaThe Hague
Score2754
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5156
Park area within 2 km54 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Lima and The Hague are level on 56.
LimaThe Hague
Score5656
Tourist attractions within 2 km2510
Park area within 2 km54 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km47
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 8 points.8
LimaThe Hague
Score4654
Notable places within 2 km5486
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 22 points.22
LimaThe Hague
Score8058
Price level global47.779.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 38 points.38
LimaThe Hague
Score9254
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm42 mm to 85 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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaThe Hague
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
4 h 25 m
€256
LIM · 9 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
SantiagoSCL
3 h 35 m
€181-198
LIM · 9 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
BogotaBOG
2 h 55 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
5 h 40 m
€348-370
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 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

MeasureLimaThe Hague
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaDutch
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112 or 911
Elevation154 m1 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaThe Hague
City population9,943,800548,320
People per km²3,7215,589
Museums within 10 km4654
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre3377
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.