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The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Catania 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 Catania for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Limassol for

  • families
  • wellness
  • beaches

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. Catania 72, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Catania 77, Limassol 58: Catania leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Catania 62, Limassol 38: Catania leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Catania 60, Limassol 50: Catania leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Catania 83, Limassol 65: Catania leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Catania 84, Limassol 76: Catania leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Catania 50, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Catania 48, Limassol 38: Catania leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Catania and Limassol are level on 42.
Affordability. Catania 60, Limassol 44: Catania leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Catania 55, Limassol 32: Catania leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Catania 30, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Catania and Limassol.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Catania
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Limassol
52match

Wins on families and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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 centre96 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.