VacationSelector

Lima or Tokyo?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

LimaTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 16 points.16
LimaTokyo
Score3721
Swim season months24
Beaches 10 km121
Coast distance6 km5 km
Water distance6 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 38 points.38
LimaTokyo
Score5290
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7966,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1425
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 2 points.2
LimaTokyo
Score6466
Museums within 10 km89302
Museums within 2 km of centre4752
Share of museums within 2 km %5317
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 50 points.50
LimaTokyo
Score4595
Drinking venues within 4 km4096,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1773,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4344
Nightclubs within 4 km6358
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 31 points.31
LimaTokyo
Score2758
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5185
Park area within 2 km54 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 15 points.15
LimaTokyo
Score5671
Tourist attractions within 2 km2540
Park area within 2 km54 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km49
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 14 points.14
LimaTokyo
Score4660
Notable places within 2 km54121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 10 points.10
LimaTokyo
Score8070
Price level global47.762.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 28 points.28
LimaTokyo
Score9264
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm57 mm to 237 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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaTokyo
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
5 h 40 m
€348-370
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
6 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
6 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureLimaTokyo
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaJapanese
CurrencySol (PEN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+9
Emergency number111 or 911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation154 m6 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaTokyo
City population9,943,80014,264,798
People per km²3,7216,501
Museums within 10 km46191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre33125
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months4 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.