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Peru / Latin America

Lima City Intelligence

Lima is Peru's capital and a Pacific-coast metropolis with a deep culinary identity, growing services economy, and active work on water and air resilience. Lima is a latin america city of about 11.4M metro in Peru. On the composite city-intelligence score, Lima sits around the indexed median (70/100).

Last updated
2026-05-07
Data year
2025
Population
11.4M metro

Overall score

Lima is most useful for users comparing affordability and culinary depth against air-quality, water, and seismic adaptation needs.

Overall70/100
Affordability78/100
Air quality60/100
Energy70/100

Overall city intelligence

Good

70/100

Strong affordability and culinary depth balanced against modernization and resilience needs.

Culinary depth

Globally cited

Lima's gastronomy is among the most influential globally.

Affordability profile

Favorable

Cost-of-living levels are comparatively favorable.

Lima data table

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Lima city intelligence data table
MetricValueContext
Overall score70/100Composite score across major city intelligence modules.
Cost of Living78/100Lima offers strong affordability for a major capital, with food and transit costs supporting steady daily life.
Air Quality60/100Lima's air-quality profile is shaped by traffic, dust, and seasonal humidity, with active monitoring and policy attention.
Energy70/100Lima has solid grid reliability with growing renewable build-out and active building-efficiency work.
Safety64/100Lima has mid-tier safety with neighborhood variation and property-related opportunistic risks the main day-to-day concern.
Internet Speed76/100Lima has solid fiber broadband and improving mobile coverage, supporting a growing technology and remote-work community.
Climate Risk68/100Lima carries meaningful climate exposure from water variability, seismic activity, and rising heat, balanced by active adaptation programs.
Resilience68/100Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context.

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Cost of Living in Lima

Lima offers strong affordability for a major capital, with food and transit costs supporting steady daily life.

Air Quality in Lima

Lima's air-quality profile is shaped by traffic, dust, and seasonal humidity, with active monitoring and policy attention.

Energy in Lima

Lima has solid grid reliability with growing renewable build-out and active building-efficiency work.

Safety in Lima

Lima has mid-tier safety with neighborhood variation and property-related opportunistic risks the main day-to-day concern.

Internet Speed in Lima

Lima has solid fiber broadband and improving mobile coverage, supporting a growing technology and remote-work community.

Climate Risk in Lima

Lima carries meaningful climate exposure from water variability, seismic activity, and rising heat, balanced by active adaptation programs.

City rankings

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Interpretation

Lima is most useful for users comparing affordability and culinary depth against air-quality, water, and seismic adaptation needs. Its standout dimensions are cost of living (78/100) and internet speed (76/100). The area most worth watching is air quality (60/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-07. Drawn from 4 institutional references.

Country context is available on the Peru country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Lima appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.

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Sources

4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.