Where it is most expensive and cheaper to rent a 2 bedroom apartment in Lima: district ranking (October 2026)

Machine-assisted English version of the Spanish original by Aptología. All figures are locked to the original (numbers are copied, not re-translated); if in doubt, the Spanish original prevails.

In Lima, a 2 bedroom apartment is rented for 3,784 soles (USD 1,102) per month in the middle of San Isidro, the most expensive district, and 1,892 soles (USD 551) per month in San Miguel, the cheapest: 2.0 times less. We compare 9 districts with at least 30 ads from 2 bedrooms.

Abstract: We analyze 789 apartments for rent of 2 bedrooms in 9 districts of Lima.

Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.

Summary

Monthly rental of a 2 bedroom apartment by district

Medians of the order, without HOA fee or common expenses; only districts with 30 ads or more.

Frequently asked questions

How much does it cost to rent a 2 bedroom apartment in San Isidro? 3,784 suns (USD 1,102) per month in the medium (October of 2026); the central half between 3,200 suns (USD 931) and 5,210 suns (USD 1,517).

Where is it cheaper to rent a 2 bedroom apartment in Lima? In San Miguel: 1,892 soles (USD 551) per month in the median.

Methodology

• Source: night events of the Aptology database (aptologia.com) of 18 October 2026: current housing ads in real estate portals of 13 countries, collected by Aptology and seen online between 11 and 18 October 2026. Court: 18 October of 2026.
• Debugging: exact duplicates (same city, area, type, price, currency, area, rooms and bathrooms) and prices outside the percentile 1 - 99 of each country, operation, currency and type are removed; the price per m² uses only ads with declared area between 12 and 2,000 m² and is also cut to P1-P99.
• What is measured: prices ordered (published), not closing prices. For rent, monthly rent without HOA fee, common expenses or condo.
• Minimum sample: each published figure is based on at least 30 ads; cells with less are omitted.
• Coins: never mix different coin ads without converting them. Conversión a dólares con la tasa de mercado de ExchangeRate-API (open.er-api.com, actualización del 18 Oct 2026): 1 USD = 3,182.80 COP, 1 USD = 18.47 M.N, 1 USD = 5.09 BRL, 1 USD = 3.44 PEN, 1 USD = 982.44 CLP, 1 USD = 1,514.57 ARS, 1 USD = 40.20 UYU, 1 USD = 5,705.37 PYG, 1 USD = 61.27 DOP, 1 USD = 0.89 EUR, 1 USD = 11.72 BOB; la UF chilena a 41,178.64 CLP (mindicador,cl. 18-oct-2026). The ads published in dollars are used as they are.
• Coins: In each city and operation only the majority currency of the ads is used (the ads in another currency are excluded) and the median is converted to dollars at the rate mentioned; no different currency ads are ever averaged.
• Limitations: The coverage depends on the portals that travel Aptology in each country and is greater in large cities and in the medium-high and high segments; the area is the one that declares the announcement, unverified; the area names come from the portals.
• Privacy: only aggregates are published; no personal data, link to ads or name of advertiser is published.
• Open data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

How to quote

Pinzón Pineda, D. M. (2026). Where it is most expensive and cheaper to rent a 2 bedroom apartment in Lima: district ranking (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/alquiler-departamentos-de-2-dormitorios-por-distrito-lima-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• Current data and listings: rentals in Lima on Aptología
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23525517 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): Dónde es más caro y más barato alquilar un departamento de 2 dormitorios en Lima: ranking de distritos (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/alquiler-departamentos-de-2-dormitorios-por-distrito-lima-2026
• Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-19-2026/tree/main/alquiler-departamentos-de-2-dormitorios-por-distrito-lima-2026

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