Lima or Valle Nevado?

2,473 km apart, in Peru and Chile. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

• LimaPeru · best Jan, Jun, Dec
• Valle NevadoChile · best Feb, Jul, Sep

Month by month

• Sweet spot
• Good
• OK
• Avoid
• Busy

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d": days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month.

Before you go

• Cost of living — Lima: cheap, about 51% of the United States; Valle Nevado: cheap, about 48% of the United States.
• Currency — Lima: Nuevo sol; Valle Nevado: Chilean peso.
• Plugs — Lima: type A and B and C, 220 V; Valle Nevado: type C and L, 220 V.
• Driving — Lima: on the right; Valle Nevado: on the right.
• Travel advice — Lima: avoid all but essential travel to parts; Valle Nevado: no advice against travel.

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

On arrival in Lima

• Apps — Rides: Cabify, DiDi, inDrive, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp. Street taxis have no meters: agree the fare before you get in, or book through an app or a taxi company.
• Paying — Cards work in chains and upmarket hotels, restaurants and shops, sometimes with a surcharge, which must be shown on a sign; carry soles elsewhere. Many locals pay by Yape QR code.
• UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
• Getting around Lima — Metropolitano buses take a rechargeable Metropolitano or Lima Pass card; Metro Line 1 has its own card, and Line 2 needs the new Tarjeta Interoperable de Transporte (S/ 7.50 at its ticket offices).
• Tipping — Not usual in basic restaurants, but 10% for good service is polite.
• Emergency — police 105 · ambulance 106 or 116 · fire 116.
  TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 3 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

On arrival in Valle Nevado

• Apps — Rides: Cabify, DiDi, inDrive, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp.
• Paying — Cards are accepted in chain stores and most independent shops in big cities; if the card machine asks about cuotas, choose sin cuotas.
• UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
• Tipping — About 10% in restaurants is customary, handed to the waiter; leaving nothing is seen as rude unless service was poor.
• Emergency — police 133 · ambulance 131 · fire 132.
  TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 3 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

Between them

2,473 km as the crow flies, about 3h 56m in the air.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A nonstop or a road is named only where a record has it — nonstop routes from Wikipedia's airport articles (CC BY-SA 4.0), roads from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

• Lima or Bogota
• Lima or Buenos Aires
• Lima or Santiago
• Lima or Sao Paulo
• Valle Nevado or Bogota
• Valle Nevado or Buenos Aires
• Valle Nevado or Santiago
• Valle Nevado or Sao Paulo

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.