VacationSelector

Catania or Limassol?

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

Your match

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

CataniaLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 21 points.21
CataniaLimassol
Score5879
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km527
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Catania leads by 6 points.6
CataniaLimassol
Score4943
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1419
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 15 points.15
CataniaLimassol
Score5944
Museums within 10 km3417
Museums within 2 km of centre2710
Share of museums within 2 km %7959
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Catania leads by 8 points.8
CataniaLimassol
Score4739
Drinking venues within 4 km537340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7575
Nightclubs within 4 km1820
Nature & day trips. Catania leads by 9 points.9
CataniaLimassol
Score3122
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6149
Park area within 2 km11 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Catania leads by 20 points.20
CataniaLimassol
Score3616
Tourist attractions within 2 km253
Park area within 2 km11 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Catania leads by 25 points.25
CataniaLimassol
Score3914
Notable places within 2 km379
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 2 points.2
CataniaLimassol
Score6870
Price level global64.961.4
Daily budget€155€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 8 points.8
CataniaLimassol
Score7785
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months58
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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 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 fromCataniaLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 15 m
no fares
REG · 80 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 55 m
€157-299
CTA · 4 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 5 m
€44-56
CTA · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€54-109
CTA · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€110-159
PFO · 51 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 45 m
€49-57
CTA · 4 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 5 m
€115-151
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 0 m
€84-100
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 45 m
€143-223
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 2026-10, 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

MeasureCataniaLimassol
Official languageItalianTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m10 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaLimassol
City population311,584107,970
People per km²1,7042,405
Museums within 10 km252
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre3028
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.