VacationSelector

Lima or Thessaloniki?

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 year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
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.

LimaThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 18 points.18
LimaThessaloniki
Score3755
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km124
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 2 points.2
LimaThessaloniki
Score5250
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1415
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 15 points.15
LimaThessaloniki
Score6449
Museums within 10 km8934
Museums within 2 km of centre4722
Share of museums within 2 km %5365
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 22 points.22
LimaThessaloniki
Score4567
Drinking venues within 4 km4091,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4357
Nightclubs within 4 km6361
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 38 points.38
LimaThessaloniki
Score2765
Protected land share 50 km %225
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5183
Park area within 2 km54 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 15 points.15
LimaThessaloniki
Score5641
Tourist attractions within 2 km2516
Park area within 2 km54 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 10 points.10
LimaThessaloniki
Score4656
Notable places within 2 km5498
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 6 points.6
LimaThessaloniki
Score8074
Price level global47.755.8
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 20 points.20
LimaThessaloniki
Score9272
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months129
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaThessaloniki
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SKG · 14 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLimaThessaloniki
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaGreek
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 m6 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaThessaloniki
City population9,943,800309,617
People per km²3,72116,042
Museums within 10 km4631
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3345
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months5 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. 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.