VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Limassol?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AmsterdamLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 39 points.39
AmsterdamLimassol
Score4079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km3327
Coast distance24 km1 km
Water distance24 km1 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamLimassol
Score8343
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4419
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 36 points.36
AmsterdamLimassol
Score8044
Museums within 10 km9817
Museums within 2 km of centre6910
Share of museums within 2 km %7059
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 31 points.31
AmsterdamLimassol
Score7039
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7075
Nightclubs within 4 km11420
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 38 points.38
AmsterdamLimassol
Score6022
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8249
Park area within 2 km49 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 52 points.52
AmsterdamLimassol
Score6816
Tourist attractions within 2 km743
Park area within 2 km49 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 54 points.54
AmsterdamLimassol
Score6814
Notable places within 2 km1969
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 12 points.12
AmsterdamLimassol
Score5870
Price level global79.261.4
Daily budget€181€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 28 points.28
AmsterdamLimassol
Score5785
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months08
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 12 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
€209-257
AMS · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
BristolBRS
1 h 15 m
€108-157
AMS · 12 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AthensATH
3 h 15 m
€191-265
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
ThessalonikiSKG
2 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 12 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAmsterdamLimassol
Official languageDutchTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m10 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamLimassol
City population921,468107,970
People per km²4,2082,405
Museums within 10 km1012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre9828
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.