VacationSelector

Lima or Warsaw?

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.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

LimaWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaWarsaw
Score370
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km1226
Coast distance6 km238 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 20 points.20
LimaWarsaw
Score5272
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7961,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1434
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 1 points.1
LimaWarsaw
Score6463
Museums within 10 km89107
Museums within 2 km of centre4760
Share of museums within 2 km %5356
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 17 points.17
LimaWarsaw
Score4562
Drinking venues within 4 km4091,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4364
Nightclubs within 4 km63104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 28 points.28
LimaWarsaw
Score2755
Protected land share 50 km %227
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 14 points.14
LimaWarsaw
Score5670
Tourist attractions within 2 km2542
Park area within 2 km54 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 30 points.30
LimaWarsaw
Score4676
Notable places within 2 km54299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 1 points.1
LimaWarsaw
Score8079
Price level global47.749
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 33 points.33
LimaWarsaw
Score9259
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months126
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Warsaw
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
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaWarsaw
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLimaWarsaw
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaPolish
CurrencySol (PEN)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m118 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaWarsaw
City population9,943,8001,862,402
People per km²3,7213,601
Museums within 10 km46117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3376
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. 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.