Lima
You can be here in January for about €1,969, 4 days, 1 stop.
Why now
Prime time in January: 24°C days, dry.
The winter mist (garúa) sits on the city for months and never quite rains, which puts off visitors but changes nothing about the food; in summer the Limeños leave for the southern beaches at weekends and the city is calmer. The famous restaurants need booking weeks ahead in any season.
Best months here: January, February, November. Daytime highs, sea temperature and rainy days from three years of Open-Meteo reanalysis; a rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, which is the WMO threshold and not the same as "it drizzled".
The place
Lima is a desert capital of ten million on a cliff above the Pacific, grey for half the year under the coastal mist and sharp and bright the other half. The reason to come is the table: cevicherías, chifas, anticucho carts and a few tasting-menu restaurants booked out months ahead. It suits people who eat seriously and treat the sightseeing as the walk between meals.
What you can do
- 01Eat ceviche at lunch, never dinner: cevicherías buy fish in the morning and most close by four.
- 02Walk the Malecón from Miraflores to Barranco, then down the Bajada de los Baños to the sea.
- 03Spend a morning at Museo Larco in Pueblo Libre, including the open storerooms of ceramics.
- 04See the San Francisco catacombs and the Plaza Mayor, then eat chifa on Calle Capón in the Barrio Chino.
- 05Buy anticuchos from an evening cart, and drink a pisco sour at the Gran Hotel Bolívar on Plaza San Martín.
Where to stay · neighbourhoods
Stay in Miraflores for convenience or Barranco for evenings; both are safe to walk. Centro is for daytime only, and the airport hotels are for early flights and nothing else.
Unusual things
- ◦Presbítero Maestro, the 19th-century monumental cemetery, with evening guided tours among the marble.
- ◦Monumental Callao, a block of galleries and studios in the old port's tenements, best on a guided visit.
- ◦Casa de la Literatura Peruana inside the former Desamparados railway station behind the Government Palace.
Day trips
Flight options
Routes come from OpenFlights (historical) and a 2026 route reference compiled from public timetables. Durations are the published schedule where we have it, otherwise a block-time model fitted on measured nonstop flights. Verify schedules with the airline before booking.
Flight.Deals has not measured this route from Abu Dhabi yet, but it does measure Lima from Dubai (€1,475 typical).
Entry requirements · IT passport
Source: passport-index-data, March 2026 (coarse indicator), covering 258 of our 268 destinations for each of 199 passports. Always confirm with the destination's official site.
Airports
Distances are centre to airport derived · nonstop counts are our route reference for 2026, not every flight that exists.
Local transport
- Airport to city
- Airport Express bus, 45 min, ~€7
- Car needed?
- No — walkable or good public transport
- Getting around
- App rides are the practical way around; the Metropolitano bus runs down Paseo de la República between Barranco, Miraflores and the centre. Jorge Chávez airport is in Callao, 45 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes depending on traffic; use an official taxi counter or an app from the terminal.
- Clock
- 9 hours behind Abu Dhabi (America/Lima) derived
- Daylight
- 12.8 hours of daylight in January · sunrise 05:54, sunset 18:40 derived
- Currency
- PEN
Good to know
Phone snatching on buses and in the centre is the main risk; keep valuables out of sight and use app rides rather than street taxis at night.
Alternatives at a similar price
Whole trip per person for 4 days from Abu Dhabi in January, then the flight time; estimates, like the total above.
Mexico City
Oaxaca
Costa Rica
Melbourne
Havana
Perth