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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Belfast 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 Belfast for

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

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

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • day trips

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. Belfast 20, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Limassol 58: Limassol leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Limassol 38: Belfast leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Belfast and Limassol are level on 50.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Limassol 65: Belfast leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Limassol 38: Belfast leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Limassol 42: Belfast leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Limassol 44: Belfast leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Limassol 32: Belfast leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Limassol.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Belfast
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Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Limassol
52match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastLimassol
Official languageEnglishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastLimassol
City population345,006107,970
People per km²3,0002,405
Museums within 10 km82
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.