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The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
BucharestThe CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Bucharest by Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Bucharest 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 Bucharest for

  • live music and the arts
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • 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. Bucharest 8, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Bucharest 55, Limassol 58: Limassol leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Bucharest 58, Limassol 38: Bucharest leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Bucharest 70, Limassol 50: Bucharest leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bucharest 45, Limassol 65: Limassol leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Bucharest 52, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Bucharest 52, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Bucharest 52, Limassol 38: Bucharest leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bucharest 45, Limassol 42: Bucharest leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Bucharest 70, Limassol 44: Bucharest leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bucharest 60, Limassol 32: Bucharest leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bucharest 47, Limassol 42: Bucharest leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bucharest 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

Bucharest
51match

Wins on live music and the arts and prices with your weighting.

Limassol
52match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bucharest in July

30 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
68 mmrain in the month
10 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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBucharestLimassol
Official languageRomanianTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m10 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestLimassol
City population1,716,961107,970
People per km²7,5972,405
Museums within 10 km412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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). 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. 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.