VacationSelector

Bangkok or Limassol?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

BangkokLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 39 points.39
BangkokLimassol
Score4079
Swim season months126
Beaches 10 km027
Coast distance23 km1 km
Water distance23 km1 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokLimassol
Score8343
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2619
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
BangkokLimassol
Score4644
Museums within 10 km10317
Museums within 2 km of centre3010
Share of museums within 2 km %2959
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 44 points.44
BangkokLimassol
Score8339
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4175
Nightclubs within 4 km7220
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 29 points.29
BangkokLimassol
Score5122
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8349
Park area within 2 km42 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 41 points.41
BangkokLimassol
Score5716
Tourist attractions within 2 km313
Park area within 2 km42 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 34 points.34
BangkokLimassol
Score4814
Notable places within 2 km629
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 23 points.23
BangkokLimassol
Score9370
Price level global29.761.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 29 points.29
BangkokLimassol
Score5685
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months38
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 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 fromBangkokLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
8 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
KatowiceKTW
10 h 25 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 20 m
no fares
DMK · 21 km
5 h 10 m
€377-465
2 stops
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

MeasureBangkokLimassol
Official languageThaiTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m10 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokLimassol
City population5,676,648107,970
People per km²3,6192,405
Museums within 10 km592
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre9128
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.

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.