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The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Lima or Yokohama?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Lima 88, Yokohama 72: Lima leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Lima 66, Yokohama 55: Lima leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Lima 62, Yokohama 44: Lima leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lima 45, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Lima 34, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Lima 42, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 44 points.
Getting around. Lima 35, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Lima 52, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Lima 70, Yokohama 55: Lima leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lima 53, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lima 25, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lima and Yokohama.

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.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips and getting around 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

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). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimaYokohama
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 m24 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaYokohama
City population9,943,8003,757,630
People per km²3,7218,585
Museums within 10 km4738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months5 months

Where else could you go?

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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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.