🇵🇪Lima for Digital Nomads
Peru · Grey coast, great food
Photo: Aarom Ore / Unsplash
Costs
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community-reported
Wifi
42Mbps
Mild months
10of 12
Safety
1.8
Overall
3.9
Lima at a glance
Lima is a working city rather than a pretty one, and the case for it is on the clock. A Lima day overlaps a US Eastern working day by 8 hours1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — overlap of a 09:00-17:00 day, US East reference) — a full shift, not a window. Against Europe you get 2 hours1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — overlap of a 09:00-17:00 day, Europe reference), enough for a stand-up and nothing more.
The weather is the most misread thing about this coast. Temperatures are mild, with 10 of 12 months in the mild band2 (source: Nomadbase comfort index — months in the mild comfort band, from 2025 data), and it rains on 32 days a year1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — 2025). It is also grey: cloud cover averages 67%1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — 2025 annual mean), because the sea fog sits over the city for months at a time. Mild, dry and grey is the honest summary, and the air quality is what stops that being a recommendation.
The limits are hard ones. Station-measured PM2.5 runs at 23.6 µg/m³3 (source: OpenAQ — station measurement, July 2026), nearly five times the WHO guideline of 5. The homicide rate is 8.6 per 100k7 (source: UNODC — national rate per 100,000 for Peru), high for a destination in this catalogue. Tap water is not safe to drink10 (source: Nomadbase country research — country tap-water tier).
Do not come for the workspace market. There are 4 coworking spaces mapped within 15 km against 569 cafés4 (source: OpenStreetMap — July 2026, within 15 km), and per head that is among the thinnest desk markets we list. Measured download speed is mid-table at 42.1 Mbps5 (source: M-Lab — median download speed). Peru's national price level is 54.0 against the United States at 1009 (source: World Bank — price level of household consumption, US = 100), affordable without being among the cheapest bases you could pick.
Lima suits you if your income is American or fully asynchronous, if you would rather eat well than look at a skyline, and if a weekday surf beats a polished nomad scene. It suits you less if you need sun, if your lungs are sensitive, or if you want a legal way to stay. A digital nomad visa has existed on paper since November 2023 but still cannot be filed12 (source: Government sources — Legislative Decree 1582; never added to the Migraciones procedures manual as of July 2026), so you plan around tourist entries of up to 90 days at the officer's discretion12 (source: Government sources — per entry; checked 2026-07-29) and a hard cap of 183 days in any 36512 (source: Government sources — cumulative ceiling; border runs do not reset it; checked 2026-07-29).
What works
- 8 hours of overlap with a US Eastern working day1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — overlap of a 09:00-17:00 day, US East reference) — a full shift, not a window
- Mild and almost rainless: 10 of 12 months in the mild band2 (source: Nomadbase comfort index — from 2025 climate data) and 32 rain days a year1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — 2025)
- 8 surf spots within 30 km4 (source: OpenStreetMap — surf spots within 30 km, July 2026), reachable from a city district
- Nearest major airport eight km out6 (source: OurAirports — distance to the nearest major airport)
Worth knowing
- Station-measured PM2.5 of 23.6 µg/m³3 (source: OpenAQ — station measurement, July 2026), nearly five times the WHO guideline
- Homicide rate 8.6 per 100k7 (source: UNODC — national rate per 100,000 for Peru)
- Cloud cover 67%1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — 2025 annual mean): mild and dry, but grey for months at a time
- The nomad visa cannot be filed12 (source: Government sources — Decree 1582, no procedure as of July 2026), and tourist stays cap at 183 days in any 36512 (source: Government sources — cumulative ceiling; border runs do not reset it)
Living in Lima
Neighbourhoods, finding a place and getting around — the practical layer the data tiles below cannot carry. Working, money, people and time off live in their own sections.
Lima spreads a long way along its cliffs, and the district you pick decides how much of your day disappears into traffic. Get that choice right and the city becomes much smaller.
Where to stay
Miraflores is the default first base: the clifftop malecón, the densest run of cafés you will actually work in, and enough within walking distance that you can skip the traffic. Barranco next door is quieter, with the galleries and most of the bars, and you can walk or cycle between the two along the clifftop. San Isidro is the business district — El Olivar's olive grove, wide pavements, early nights.
Cheaper and less polished, still close: Surquillo behind Miraflores, where the market is the reason to be there; Magdalena del Mar and Jesús María inland; Lince between them. Chorrillos and the road down to La Herradura make sense if surf is driving the decision. Central Lima, the Cercado, is a daytime destination rather than a base.
Districts differ sharply in feel, pavement quality and how relaxed you are after dark. Walk your shortlist in the evening before you sign anything.
Finding a place
Book one furnished month, then look on the ground. Listing photos hide the thing people actually regret: a bedroom window facing a main avenue.
Where people look:
- A furnished monthly rental for the landing month, a local lease afterwards
- Facebook groups for Lima rentals and for arriving remote workers
- Local portals: Urbania, Adondevivir, Nexo Inmobiliario
- Lobby notices and the building porteros in the district you have settled on
Long leases tend to want local paperwork, and a Peruvian guarantor or local ID comes up often enough that plenty of newcomers stay furnished longer than they planned. Before you commit, ask which windows face the avenue, ask about the building's water tank and pump, and check whether the flat has heating at all. Most do not, and the grey months feel colder indoors than you would expect.
Getting around
Long distances run on the Metropolitano busway down the Vía Expresa and on Metro Línea 1 out to the southern and eastern districts. Each has its own rechargeable card, sold at the stations, and neither covers the whole city. The rest is buses, combis and custer micros, learned by route and by shouted destination rather than from a map.
Most people move by app. Uber, Didi, Cabify and inDrive all operate, and using them instead of hailing on the street is the standard local advice. Traffic is the real tax on your day, so keep appointments out of the morning and evening peaks, and use the malecón bike lanes or your feet for anything inside Miraflores and Barranco.
Jorge Chávez, out in Callao, sits 8 km from the centre6 (source: OurAirports — distance to the nearest major airport), which is the reason weekends away stay realistic.
Cost of living
#64of 101 destinations
What a month actually costs, as a range — housing you can verify, everyday spending modelled from national price levels, and every line labelled with which it is.
Money
Soles for daily life. Cards are fine in supermarkets, malls and sit-down restaurants; cash is for markets, combis, small kitchens and anything sold on a corner. Yape and Plin QR transfers are how locals pay each other, but both generally want a Peruvian account or phone number, so most arrivals stay on cards and cash.
Withdraw inside a bank, a mall or a supermarket rather than from a machine on the pavement, decline the "charge in your home currency" prompt, and keep small notes for taxis and lunch menus. Tap water is not safe to drink, so plan for a filter jug or a delivered bottle at home.
- Coworking deskadd-on, not in the range
- €193/mo8 (source: Published prices — WeWork Lima, monthly coworking membership list price across its 4 buildings (Miraflores and San Isidro) (745 PEN), The list price, not the promotion: the page shows "from S/745/mo" struck through against a promoted "S/634/mo", identically for all four Lima locations. Dedicated desk and private office both read "Inquire for pricing". No IGV statement anywhere on the page. Single operator, no median, and the reason is that Lima's market publishes almost nothing: Regus quotes USD but only per day (with a 24-month-contract asterisk), and Comunal, Worx and Lima Coworking publish no monthly rate at all., checked 2026-07-30. Converted at the Banco Central de Reserva del Perú (BCRP) rate for 2026-07-24 (perEur is BCRP's "(S/ por €) Cierre" of 3,870; perUsd is its "TC Interbancario, Promedio" of 3,4054, a traded average over the 09:00-13:30 window). ⚠️ DATED 24 JULY, not 30 — and that is expected rather than a scraping failure: Peru's Fiestas Patrias fall on 28-29 July and BCRP strikes its close only after the afternoon trading window. ⚠️ Note that BCRP's euro "Cierre" is labelled a SELL-side quote ("corresponde a la cotización del tipo de cambio venta"), not a mid, so it runs slightly against us; the USD leg is a genuine traded average. The sol is fully convertible with a 0.35% official spread and no parallel market, so the error is small either way.)
Spot prices: Big Mac €4.338 (source: Published prices — The Economist Big Mac Index, national average (16.90 PEN = 4.99 USD), July 2026 release — data CC BY 4.0) · eSIM, 30 days €23.508 (source: Published prices — Airalo Peru eSIM ("Habla Telefon", 10 GB / 30 days), Package slug habla-telefon-in-30days-10gb, published price {"amount":"23.50","formatted":"23.50 €"}, currency code EUR — which is why this single item survives the PEN fence. Read from the embedded payload; the rendered page shows Unlimited only (30 days 71.50 €). Neighbours: 5 GB/30d 15.50 €, 20 GB/30d 37.50 €. This is the ONLY writable basket item for Lima: WeWork publishes the right metric in PEN, Regus publishes USD but only per day, and Comunal and Worx publish nothing (see FENCED and NOT_WRITTEN)., checked 2026-07-30)
We cannot put a month together for Lima yet: we have no housing price for it — neither a coliving room nor a place of your own. Everyday spending we can model from national price levels, but housing is the part that actually varies by city, and a month without it would say more about our data than about Lima. The prices we do hold are above.
Live in Lima? Members report what they pay — and the medians appear right here.
Join the waitlistWork
#80of 103 destinations
42Mbps
median download, measured in the city
Connection, desks and whether a day here meets yours — the three things that decide whether you can do your job from this city.
Working from here
Café work is the norm here, not the fallback. The city has 569 mapped cafés against 4 coworking spaces4 (source: OpenStreetMap — July 2026, within 15 km), so a workspace here is something you assemble rather than something the city hands you.
What works: line up a couple of places within walking distance instead of leaning on one, arrive before the lunch rush takes the tables, and sit where your bag stays against your leg. If your clients sit on the US East Coast, put the calls inside your own working day — that overlap is the whole structural argument for being here.
Internet
Coliving & coworking
CoworkingClick the map to open it — 39 places mapped in Lima altogether.
- Coworking spaces mapped
- 44 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Cafés mapped
- 5694 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
Time zones
Workday overlap with Europe
2 of 8 h1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — Nomadbase overlap of a 09:00-17:00 day against Open-Meteo time zone (America/Lima), standard time; Europe reference UTC+1)
Workday overlap with US East
8 of 8 h1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — Nomadbase overlap of a 09:00-17:00 day against Open-Meteo time zone (America/Lima), standard time; US East reference UTC-5)
Overlap is the hours a 09:00–17:00 day here meets a 09:00–17:00 day there, at standard time.
Climate & air
#63of 103 destinations
10of 12
mild months — felt temperature between 18 and 27 °C
Month by month, not as one annual average. 18–27 °C is the range where being outside feels good — we count how much of the year sits inside it.
Seasons
Lima’s weather is the most misread thing about it, as the intro says, and the garúa is why: from roughly May to November a sea-fog lid sits over the coast — grey, cool, humid, and almost never actually raining. Southern summer flips the switch: December to April is bright, warm and beach-shaped, and the city visibly changes personality.
The grey months are workable once you stop waiting for them to end — mild, stable, fine for running and surfing — but people who metabolise sunlight into mood should time Lima for its summer, or plan Andes escapes above the fog line, where the sun has been the whole time.
Tap a month for details.
feels-like monthly mean · ticks = rain days1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — 2025 monthly means (felt temperature, rain-day share, cloud share))
comfortable & clearcomfortable, wetter/greyeroutside the 18–27 °C band
- Dry days a year
- 333 days/year1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — 2025 full-year count)
- Cloud cover, annual mean
- 67%1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — 2025 annual average)
Air quality — PM2.5, recent median
23.6 µg/m³ · poor3 (source: OpenAQ — median of 3 stations, 2026-07-26)
The climate score is built from that band plus rain and cloud cover, month by month — so a hot summer costs a destination points rather than earning them.
Safety & everyday life
#79of 103 destinations
7.2/ 10
women's safety — Georgetown WPS index, country level
Country-level indicators — a practical baseline for the whole country, not the vibe of one neighbourhood. Community reports refine this picture over time.
Staying safe
Lima asks for real city discipline, and the intro’s country figures are the context. The practical version: base and stay social in the coastal districts, use registered taxis or apps for everything after dark, and treat the phone as the target it is — snatch theft is the crime that actually happens, and it happens to phones in hands at kerbs.
Centro rewards a daytime visit and an evening exit; the districts beyond your map are beyond your map. None of this makes daily life tense — the malecón at dusk is full of runners and couples — it makes it structured, and the structure is the safety.
- Homicide rate, national
- 8.6 per 100k7 (source: UNODC — intentional homicide rate for Peru, 2021)
- Hospitals & clinics
- ≈ 7.7 / 100k4 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Pharmacies
- ≈ 19 / 100k4 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
Safety for women
7.2 / 10
Georgetown WPS index — inclusion, justice and security, country level
776 mapped within 15 km
1945 mapped within 15 km
Getting by in English
6.2 / 10
high English proficiency
LGBTQ+ legal position · Peru10 (source: Nomadbase country research — checked 2026-07-29)
7.0 / 10- Same-sex relationshipsLegal
- Partnership recognitionNone
- Employment protectionsYes
- Legal gender changePossible
1 queer venue mapped in the city · ≈ 0.0 per 100k residents4 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
The Supreme Court voided the 2024 "trans identities as mental illness" decree in March 2026, and DL 1323 (2017) criminalises employment discrimination — but there is still no partnership recognition and gender marker change works only through slow, contested court cases.
Tap water · Peru10 (source: Nomadbase country research — checked 2026-07-29)
1.0 / 10Unsafe
Bottled advised
Mostly fine
Drink the tap
Not safe without treatment
Tap water is not safe to drink (or brush teeth with) anywhere including Lima unless boiled — bottled or filtered water is universal practice.
Getting there & staying
#58of 103 destinations
90 days
visa-free on an EU passport · set in Your setup
How you get in, how long you may stay, and what it takes to run a business from here.
Visa & entry requirements
A digital nomad visa has existed on paper since November 2023 (Legislative Decree 1582) but still cannot be filed — as of July 2026 it has never been added to Migraciones' procedures manual, so there are no requirements, no fees and no application route. Plan around tourist entries: up to 90 days per entry, hard-capped at 183 days per year.12 (source: Government sources — checked against the official source on July 29, 2026)
How long you can stay
EU, US, UK, Canadian and Australian passports enter visa-free. The stamp (now usually digital) is at the officer's discretion — 90 days per entry is the norm, sometimes less — within a hard ceiling of 183 days in any 365-day period. If you were stamped in for less than the cap, an online prórroga de permanencia through Migraciones' digital agency can top you up toward it; approval is discretionary. Repeat border runs to reset the count do not work — the 183-day ceiling is cumulative — and frequent re-entries draw growing scrutiny.
Staying longer as a remote worker
Peru announced a dedicated digital nomad migratory status in Legislative Decree 1582 of November 2023 — up to 365 days, renewable, for people working remotely for foreign employers or clients. It has never been implemented: the category was left out of the TUPA (Migraciones' official procedures manual) through both the 2024 and 2025 updates, so as of mid-2026 there is nothing to apply for. Treat any site advertising a "Peru digital nomad visa" with suspicion, and check Migraciones for news before planning around it.
The workarounds are imperfect. Staying on tourist entries within the 183-day cap is what most nomads actually do, but it carries no work rights — remote work for foreign clients on a tourist stamp is a tolerated grey area, not an authorized activity. The independent-worker resident route (trabajador independiente) gives formal status but is built for people earning locally and pulls you into Peruvian tax registration. Note that 183+ days in-country makes you a Peruvian tax resident either way.
Visa rules change frequently. This information was last checked on July 29, 2026. It is not legal advice — confirm before booking with the official source.
Flights
The nearest major airport — Jorge Chávez International Airport — is 8 km6 (source: OurAirports — nearest major airport is Jorge Chávez International Airport) out, with 1 airport6 (source: OurAirports — major and regional airports with scheduled service) within 100 km overall.
Company & banking
Setting up a company
6.5 / 10
on-site · 100% foreign ownership · no real minimum capital · ~10 days to register
Opening an account
5.3 / 10
personal account difficult · business account straightforward · branch visit needed · limited EMI cover
Setting up, in practice
A notarised deed and SUNARP registration, then a RUC from SUNAT; about ten days, foreign ownership unrestricted, capital symbolic.Banking, in practice
Company accounts are routine after the RUC. Personal accounts want a carné de extranjería, so the visa comes first.Not legal or tax advice. Company law, fees and bank policy change without notice — confirm with the registry linked on each figure and with a local adviser before you act on any of it.
Going out
#101of 103 destinations
5.7/ 100
bars, pubs and clubs per 100 restaurants & cafés
Evenings, eating and what there is to do once the laptop closes.
Free time
Eat. Cebicherías at lunch, a menú del día in every district, chifa from the Chinese-Peruvian kitchens, nikkei from the Japanese-Peruvian ones, and the Mercado de Surquillo when you want to cook for yourself. 41 vegan-friendly places are mapped within 15 km4 (source: OpenStreetMap — July 2026, within 15 km).
Then the coast. 8 surf spots sit within 30 km4 (source: OpenStreetMap — surf spots within 30 km, July 2026), from the beginner beaches under the Miraflores cliffs to La Herradura in the south, and the same cliffs work as a paragliding launch. Grey afternoons go to the Larco and MALI, or to the Huaca Pucllana, an adobe pyramid standing in the middle of Miraflores.
For weekends, the coast road south reaches Paracas and the dunes at Huacachina, Lunahuaná has the river, and the Andes begin close enough for three days away.
CafésClick the map to open it — 39 places mapped in Lima altogether.
- Bars, pubs and clubs
- 2774 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Restaurants
- 4,2894 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Vegan-friendly places
- 414 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Vegetarian-friendly places
- 774 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
mapped within 15 km
mapped within 15 km — the base the shares below are measured against
0.8 per 100 restaurants & cafés
1.6 per 100 restaurants & cafés
Being active
#86of 103 destinations
136spots
gyms and yoga studios mapped in town
Gyms, studios and board sports in town, and the nature within reach — counted where counting is honest, shown as a badge where the map is too sparse to rank.
Staying active
The malecón is one of the great urban running routes anywhere: clifftop kilometres over the Pacific, workout stations en route, paragliders overhead. The grey season is actually good training weather — cool, windless, no sun management — which is the local secret hiding inside the meteorological complaint.
The surf the Free time chapter maps runs year-round with wetsuits, and the beginner beaches under the cliffs make it a legitimate place to learn. Gyms cluster exactly where you would live, and the ceviche-to-training-volume ratio is self-balancing.
In town
GymsYogaSurf spotsClick the map to open it — 39 places mapped in Lima altogether.
- Gyms
- 1304 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Yoga studios
- 64 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
mapped within 15 km — ≈ 1.3 / 100k
mapped within 15 km — ≈ 0.1 / 100k
Nature within reach
Community
Who is here, who is coming, and who has been. Counts only — never names.
Meeting people
Spanish carries the day. English will get you through Miraflores and Barranco and then stop, and the difference between a flat month and a good one is usually a language exchange plus one standing weekly thing.
Where people find each other:
- Gyms and yoga: 130 gyms and 6 yoga studios mapped within 15 km4 (source: OpenStreetMap — July 2026, within 15 km)
- Surf lessons on the beaches below the Miraflores cliffs, running all week
- Running and cycling groups along the malecón
- Language exchanges and Spanish schools, the fastest way into a circle that is not only other foreigners
Formal nomad infrastructure is thin, so you build the social side yourself instead of walking into it. One LGBTQ+ venue is mapped within 15 km4 (source: OpenStreetMap — July 2026, within 15 km).
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How the scores work
Every score runs 0–10 and is comparative — where Lima lands across the catalogue, not a grade in isolation.
Cost
4.2#64 of 101 · 1 of 1 measured
What a month costs, from the cheapest way of living here to the dearest we can price.
No housing price is verified here yet, so the score rests on the country price level (54, US = 100). Across the catalogue that ranks 64th of 101.
Public data 4.2
Work
3.2#80 of 103 · 2 of 2 measured
Connection, desks and whether the working day here meets yours.
Typical downloads run around 42 Mbps and 4 coworking spaces are mapped in town. Across the catalogue that ranks 80th of 103.
Public data 4.8
Public data 1.5
Climate
6.1#63 of 103 · 1 of 1 measured
How the year feels outside, air quality included.
10 of the 12 months sit in the comfortable 18–27 °C range and air pollution is moderate (23.6 µg/m³ PM2.5). Across the catalogue that ranks 63rd of 103.
Public data 6.1
Safety
4.1#79 of 103 · 6 of 6 measured
The country-level baseline: violence, healthcare, water, and who the law protects.
The national homicide rate is elevated (8.6 per 100k), women's safety scores 7.2/10 on the Georgetown index, 776 clinics and hospitals are mapped within reach and tap water is not drinkable. Across the catalogue that ranks 79th of 103.
Public data 1.8
Public data 3.4
Public data 7.2
Public data 1.0
Public data 7.0
Public data 6.2
Getting there
5.6#58 of 103 · 3 of 3 measured
Getting in, staying legally, and flying out again.
An EU passport gets 90 visa-free days, there is no long-stay route for remote work and the nearest major airport is 8 km from town. Across the catalogue that ranks 58th of 103.
Public data 4.0
Public data 7.9
Public data 5.9
Going out
1.7#101 of 103 · 4 of 4 measured
Evenings, eating and what there is to do when the laptop closes.
For every 100 restaurants and cafés there are 6 bars, pubs or clubs and 1 vegan-friendly places per 100 restaurants and cafés. Across the catalogue that ranks 101st of 103.
Public data 1.1
Public data 2.3
Public data 1.6
Public data 2.1
Being active
3.5#86 of 103 · 2 of 2 measured
Gyms and studios, board sports, and the nature within reach.
130 gyms and 6 yoga studios are mapped in town, 2 nature reserves and 1 hiking routes lie within 30 km, it sits on the coast and the wind is kiteable on 0 days a year. Across the catalogue that ranks 86th of 103.
Public data 1.6
Public data 5.3
Community
Nothing measured here yet
Members on the ground, chapters and events — our own data, not a proxy.
Not measured here yet: community.
Read the sectionSources
Every figure on this page carries the source it came from and the date it was measured. Where no source exists, the field is left empty rather than estimated.
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Copernicus ERA5Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information
ECMWF’s ERA5 reanalysis, retrieved through Open-Meteo. Temperatures, rainfall, cloud cover and wind are daily values for the last complete calendar year.
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Our own reading of ERA5 data, not a measurement: a month-by-month score for how comfortable the felt temperature is, damped for rain and cloud. The formula is published.
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OpenAQCC BY 4.0
Air quality measured at ground stations. Only reaches part of the catalogue — a city needs a station nearby that is still reporting.
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OpenStreetMapODbL
Community-mapped places: coworking, cafés, gyms and diet options within 15km. Counts are a floor rather than a census — coverage depends on local mappers.
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M-LabCC BY-SA 4.0
Internet speed from real speed tests run by people in the city, aggregated over a seven-day window.
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OurAirportsPublic domain
Airport locations and types. Distances are to the nearest major airport with scheduled service.
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UNODCFree with attribution
Intentional homicide rate from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime — a national figure, because no free source measures crime per city. The year next to the number is the year the country last reported.
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Prices read by hand from the operator’s or authority’s own published price list — a transit tariff, a coworking rate card, an eSIM store — on the date shown. Checked quarterly; the linked page is the source.
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World BankCC BY 4.0
Price level of household consumption at market exchange rates (US = 100) — a national figure that anchors the cost score where no city-level source exists yet. It measures what arriving with foreign income feels like, which is why a weak currency lowers it.
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Hand-maintained country tables for the LGBTQ+ legal position and tap-water safety, compiled from advocacy databases (ILGA World, Human Dignity Trust), national authorities and government travel advice, and scored with a published rubric. Country-level by nature — city reality can differ, which is what the practical note is for.
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WikidataCC0
Structural facts taken from the place’s Wikidata entity — resident population, which mirrors a national census figure, and elevation above sea level. The year is the one Wikidata records for that figure; where the entity was the wrong scale for the place we describe, the number has been replaced by a hand-sourced one from the statistics office instead.
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Government sources
Visa and entry rules come from the responsible authority for each country, linked in the visa section and re-checked by hand on the date shown.
Frequently asked questions
How fast is the internet in Lima?
Median download speed is about 42.1 Mbps. Source: M-Lab median of 45,878 tests within 50 km, last 7 days.
What visa do I need for Lima?
A digital nomad visa has existed on paper since November 2023 (Legislative Decree 1582) but still cannot be filed — as of July 2026 it has never been added to Migraciones' procedures manual, so there are no requirements, no fees and no application route. Plan around tourist entries: up to 90 days per entry, hard-capped at 183 days per year. Last checked 2026-07-29. Always confirm with the official source before booking.
What is the weather like in Lima?
Winters average 19.2 °C and summers 22.9 °C. 10 of 12 months average a comfortable 18–27 °C (felt temperature). Source: Copernicus ERA5, 2025 annual average.
Can I work European or US hours from Lima?
A 09:00–17:00 working day in Lima overlaps 2 hours with Central European time and 8 hours with US Eastern time, at standard time.
Are there coworking spaces in Lima?
4 coworking spaces are mapped in Lima, plus 569 cafés to work from. Source: OpenStreetMap, within 15km. Counts are a floor, not a census — coverage depends on local mappers.
How do you get to Lima?
The nearest major airport is about 8 km away. 1 airport with scheduled service within 100 km. Source: OurAirports — nearest major airport is Jorge Chávez International Airport.
Last reviewed July 30, 2026. Every figure carries its own measurement date; hover a footnote for the source, or see the list above.