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The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
AtlantaThe Georgia State Capitol
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Atlanta 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 Atlanta for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • getting around

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. Atlanta 10, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, Limassol 58: Atlanta leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta 55, Limassol 38: Atlanta leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, Limassol 50: Atlanta leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta 60, Limassol 65: Limassol leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, Limassol 63: Atlanta leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, Limassol 38: Limassol leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, Limassol 42: Atlanta leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, Limassol 44: Limassol leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, Limassol 32: Atlanta leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Limassol.

Your match

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

Atlanta
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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.

Atlanta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
120 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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

Atlanta 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 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. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaLimassol
Official language-Turkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m10 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaLimassol
City population498,715107,970
People per km²1,4332,405
Museums within 10 km272
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.