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Barcelona or Limassol?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
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.

BarcelonaLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 14 points.14
BarcelonaLimassol
Score6579
Swim season months36
Beaches 10 km2027
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 47 points.47
BarcelonaLimassol
Score9043
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4119
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 24 points.24
BarcelonaLimassol
Score6844
Museums within 10 km10517
Museums within 2 km of centre4910
Share of museums within 2 km %4759
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 43 points.43
BarcelonaLimassol
Score8239
Drinking venues within 4 km2,711340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6175
Nightclubs within 4 km24520
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 28 points.28
BarcelonaLimassol
Score5022
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5149
Park area within 2 km49 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 49 points.49
BarcelonaLimassol
Score6516
Tourist attractions within 2 km603
Park area within 2 km49 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 59 points.59
BarcelonaLimassol
Score7314
Notable places within 2 km2589
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 1 points.1
BarcelonaLimassol
Score7170
Price level global60.861.4
Daily budget€122€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 7 points.7
BarcelonaLimassol
Score7885
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months58
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 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 fromBarcelonaLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 15 m
€71-76
BCN · 13 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 20 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€33-92
BCN · 13 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
ThessalonikiSKG
2 h 45 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 15 m
€100-142
1 stop
BCN · 13 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 55 m
€77-116
BCN · 13 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
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

MeasureBarcelonaLimassol
Official languageSpanishTurkish, 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 number112112
Elevation9 m10 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaLimassol
City population1,731,649107,970
People per km²17,0942,405
Museums within 10 km952
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre12828
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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.