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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Beijing 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 Beijing for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Beijing 6, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Limassol 58: Beijing leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Limassol 38: Beijing leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Limassol 50: Beijing leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Limassol 65: Limassol leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Limassol 76: Beijing leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Limassol 63: Beijing leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Limassol 38: Beijing leads by 31 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Limassol 42: Beijing leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Limassol 44: Beijing leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Limassol 32: Beijing leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Limassol 42: Beijing leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Limassol.

Your match

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

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Limassol
52match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingLimassol
Official languagePutonghuaTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m10 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingLimassol
City population21,893,095107,970
People per km²1,3342,405
Museums within 10 km832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.