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The skyline across the water with the Chugach Mountains behind, Anchorage
AnchorageThe skyline across the water with the Chugach Mountains behind
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Anchorage by Frank K., CC BY 2.0, cropped; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Anchorage or Limassol?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Anchorage for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Anchorage’s own page.

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Limassol’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Anchorage 8, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Anchorage 40, Limassol 58: Limassol leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Anchorage 35, Limassol 38: Limassol leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Anchorage 30, Limassol 50: Limassol leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Anchorage 93, Limassol 65: Anchorage leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Anchorage 33, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Anchorage 55, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Anchorage 22, Limassol 38: Limassol leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Anchorage 28, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Anchorage 28, Limassol 44: Limassol leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Anchorage 34, Limassol 32: Anchorage leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Anchorage 32, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Anchorage and Limassol.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Anchorage
37match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Anchorage in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
47 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Limassol in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Limassol has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Limassol's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Larnaca Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Anchorage: 1991-2020 normals, Anchorage Air Force Base (7 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnchorageLimassol
Official language-Turkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-9, UTC-8 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m10 m
Main airportTed Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC)7 km from centre49 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnchorageLimassol
City population291,247107,970
People per km²582,405
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.