VacationSelector

Antwerp or Limassol?

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

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat 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.

AntwerpLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
AntwerpLimassol
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance21 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 32 points.32
AntwerpLimassol
Score7543
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4219
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 25 points.25
AntwerpLimassol
Score6944
Museums within 10 km4117
Museums within 2 km of centre2710
Share of museums within 2 km %6659
Unesco sites within 50 km93
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 20 points.20
AntwerpLimassol
Score5939
Drinking venues within 4 km866340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7675
Nightclubs within 4 km7320
Nature & day trips. Antwerp leads by 12 points.12
AntwerpLimassol
Score3422
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8049
Park area within 2 km53 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 30 points.30
AntwerpLimassol
Score4616
Tourist attractions within 2 km143
Park area within 2 km53 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 40 points.40
AntwerpLimassol
Score5414
Notable places within 2 km889
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 10 points.10
AntwerpLimassol
Score6070
Price level global76.261.4
Daily budget€180€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 27 points.27
AntwerpLimassol
Score5885
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
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
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 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 fromAntwerpLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 85 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 36 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
€118-155
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
ThessalonikiSKG
2 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 45 m
€72-114
CRL · 85 km
2 h 5 m
€110-159
PFO · 51 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 0 m
€51-84
CRL · 85 km
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 51 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

MeasureAntwerpLimassol
Official languageFrench, German, DutchTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m10 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpLimassol
City population529,247107,970
People per km²2,5422,405
Museums within 10 km382
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km93
Distinct cuisines in the centre8028
Swim season, months above 21 °C–6 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.