VacationSelector

Lima or Zurich?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

LimaZurich
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 37 points.37
LimaZurich
Score370
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km1223
Coast distance6 km632 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 15 points.15
LimaZurich
Score5267
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1430
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 8 points.8
LimaZurich
Score6456
Museums within 10 km8976
Museums within 2 km of centre4737
Share of museums within 2 km %5349
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 9 points.9
LimaZurich
Score4554
Drinking venues within 4 km409676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4382
Nightclubs within 4 km6374
Nature & day trips. Zurich leads by 10 points.10
LimaZurich
Score2737
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 20 points.20
LimaZurich
Score5636
Tourist attractions within 2 km258
Park area within 2 km54 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 13 points.13
LimaZurich
Score4659
Notable places within 2 km54119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 45 points.45
LimaZurich
Score8035
Price level global47.7110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 39 points.39
LimaZurich
Score9253
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm60 mm to 128 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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
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). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaZurich
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 9 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 40 m
€403-426
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
4 h 45 m
€282-372
LIM · 9 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
BogotaBOG
2 h 55 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 50 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 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

MeasureLimaZurich
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencySol (PEN)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m408 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaZurich
City population9,943,800452,421
People per km²3,7215,147
Museums within 10 km4663
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3378
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.