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Cardiff or Limassol?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

CardiffLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 33 points.33
CardiffLimassol
Score4679
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km827
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 17 points.17
CardiffLimassol
Score6043
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3219
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 5 points.5
CardiffLimassol
Score3944
Museums within 10 km6117
Museums within 2 km of centre610
Share of museums within 2 km %1059
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 9 points.9
CardiffLimassol
Score4839
Drinking venues within 4 km536340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7475
Nightclubs within 4 km3520
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 28 points.28
CardiffLimassol
Score5022
Protected land share 50 km %182
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6849
Park area within 2 km88 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Cardiff leads by 16 points.16
CardiffLimassol
Score3216
Tourist attractions within 2 km43
Park area within 2 km88 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 31 points.31
CardiffLimassol
Score4514
Notable places within 2 km519
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 16 points.16
CardiffLimassol
Score5470
Price level global84.961.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 31 points.31
CardiffLimassol
Score5485
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months08
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
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
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 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 fromCardiffLimassol
ThessalonikiSKG
3 h 25 m
€95-154
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
AthensATH
3 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
HeraklionHER
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
RhodesRHO
4 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
SkiathosJSI
3 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
ToulouseTLS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 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

MeasureCardiffLimassol
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
Elevation41 m10 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffLimassol
City population383,536107,970
People per km²2,7342,405
Museums within 10 km92
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5528
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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. 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. 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.