VacationSelector

Lima or Vienna?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

LimaVienna
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaVienna
Score370
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km1222
Coast distance6 km10,000 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 25 points.25
LimaVienna
Score5277
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7961,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1437
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 17 points.17
LimaVienna
Score6481
Museums within 10 km89192
Museums within 2 km of centre47110
Share of museums within 2 km %5357
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 29 points.29
LimaVienna
Score4574
Drinking venues within 4 km4091,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1771,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4356
Nightclubs within 4 km63108
Nature & day trips. Vienna leads by 5 points.5
LimaVienna
Score2732
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 13 points.13
LimaVienna
Score5669
Tourist attractions within 2 km2546
Park area within 2 km54 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 29 points.29
LimaVienna
Score4675
Notable places within 2 km54287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 21 points.21
LimaVienna
Score8059
Price level global47.776.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 31 points.31
LimaVienna
Score9261
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm38 mm to 80 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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaVienna
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€152-183
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
CancunCUN
5 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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

MeasureLimaVienna
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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
Elevation154 m151 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaVienna
City population9,943,8002,028,289
People per km²3,7214,890
Museums within 10 km46152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre33113
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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.