VacationSelector

Calgary or Limassol?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Limassol
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
CalgaryLimassol
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km427
Coast distance649 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 23 points.23
CalgaryLimassol
Score6643
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3619
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 35 points.35
CalgaryLimassol
Score944
Museums within 10 km817
Museums within 2 km of centre310
Share of museums within 2 km %3859
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 5 points.5
CalgaryLimassol
Score4439
Drinking venues within 4 km465340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7475
Nightclubs within 4 km1920
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 14 points.14
CalgaryLimassol
Score3622
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10049
Park area within 2 km142 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 25 points.25
CalgaryLimassol
Score4116
Tourist attractions within 2 km33
Park area within 2 km142 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Calgary leads by 25 points.25
CalgaryLimassol
Score3914
Notable places within 2 km379
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 16 points.16
CalgaryLimassol
Score5470
Price level global8461.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 28 points.28
CalgaryLimassol
Score5785
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 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 fromCalgaryLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
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 2026-09, 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

MeasureCalgaryLimassol
Official languageFrench, EnglishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m10 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryLimassol
City population1,306,784107,970
People per km²1,5832,405
Museums within 10 km132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6728
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.