VacationSelector

Beijing or Limassol?

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

Your match

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

BeijingLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
BeijingLimassol
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km027
Coast distance145 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 19 points.19
BeijingLimassol
Score6344
Museums within 10 km9517
Museums within 2 km of centre1510
Share of museums within 2 km %1659
Unesco sites within 50 km63
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Beijing leads by 13 points.13
BeijingLimassol
Score3522
Protected land share 50 km %32
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10049
Park area within 2 km143 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 61 points.61
BeijingLimassol
Score7716
Tourist attractions within 2 km413
Park area within 2 km143 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km120
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 36 points.36
BeijingLimassol
Score5014
Notable places within 2 km699
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 9 points.9
BeijingLimassol
Score7970
Price level global4961.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 19 points.19
BeijingLimassol
Score6685
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months88
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Beijing
No coastline within reach
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
9 h 5 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
AthensATH
9 h 35 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
ViennaVIE
9 h 25 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
8 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 51 km
EdinburghEDI
10 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
DohaDOH
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
AlmatyALA
4 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 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 2026-09 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

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 centre88 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre2928
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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). 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. 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.