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The Atomium, Brussels
BrusselsThe Atomium
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Brussels by Ettanghe, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Brussels 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 Brussels for

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

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

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Brussels 18, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Brussels 72, Limassol 58: Brussels leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Brussels 74, Limassol 38: Brussels leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Brussels 60, Limassol 50: Brussels leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Brussels 45, Limassol 65: Limassol leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Brussels 89, Limassol 76: Brussels leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Brussels 60, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Brussels 72, Limassol 38: Brussels leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Brussels 62, Limassol 42: Brussels leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Brussels 40, Limassol 44: Limassol leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Brussels 68, Limassol 32: Brussels leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Brussels 33, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Brussels and Limassol.

Your match

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

Brussels
Best match
58match

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.

Brussels in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrusselsLimassol
Official languageFrench, German, DutchTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m10 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsLimassol
City population195,546107,970
People per km²5,9082,405
Museums within 10 km1062
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km103
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.