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The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Lima or Yogyakarta?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Lima for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’s own page.

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Lima 42, Yogyakarta 22: Lima leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Lima 88, Yogyakarta 62: Lima leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Lima 66, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Lima 62, Yogyakarta 32: Lima leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lima 45, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Lima 34, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Lima 42, Yogyakarta 40: Lima leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Lima and Yogyakarta are level on 35.
Shopping & style. Lima and Yogyakarta are level on 52.
Affordability. Lima 70, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lima 53, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lima 25, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lima and Yogyakarta.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Lima
51match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yogyakarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureLimaYogyakarta
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaIndonesian
CurrencySol (PEN)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+7
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m113 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLimaYogyakarta
City population9,943,800422,732
People per km²3,72113,007
Museums within 10 km4738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.