VacationSelector

Cancun or Limassol?

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

Your match

Cancun
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

CancunLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 18 points.18
CancunLimassol
Score9779
Swim season months126
Beaches 10 km2327
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Cancun leads by 11 points.11
CancunLimassol
Score5443
Restaurants within 2 km of centre681298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1819
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 24 points.24
CancunLimassol
Score2044
Museums within 10 km117
Museums within 2 km of centre110
Share of museums within 2 km %10059
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Limassol leads by 3 points.3
CancunLimassol
Score3639
Drinking venues within 4 km270340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6575
Nightclubs within 4 km3320
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 32 points.32
CancunLimassol
Score5422
Protected land share 50 km %92
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4549
Park area within 2 km66 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Cancun leads by 16 points.16
CancunLimassol
Score3216
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km66 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Limassol leads by 10 points.10
CancunLimassol
Score414
Notable places within 2 km59
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 6 points.6
CancunLimassol
Score7670
Price level global54.261.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 4 points.4
CancunLimassol
Score8185
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months18
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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
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. Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCancunLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
9 h 50 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
BirminghamBHX
9 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
DublinDUB
9 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
NewcastleNCL
9 h 50 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
11 h 40 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 51 km
KatowiceKTW
11 h 35 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
3 h 45 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureCancunLimassol
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m10 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunLimassol
City population888,797107,970
People per km²2,405
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3128
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.