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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Cebu 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 Cebu for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Limassol for

  • day trips
  • families
  • 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. Cebu 60, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Cebu and Limassol are level on 58.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Limassol 38: Cebu leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Limassol 50: Limassol leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Limassol 65: Limassol leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Limassol 38: Limassol leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Limassol 42: Cebu leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Limassol 44: Cebu leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Limassol 32: Limassol leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Limassol 42: Cebu leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Limassol.

Your match

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

Cebu
48match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cebu in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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

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. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuLimassol
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation135 m10 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuLimassol
City population965,332107,970
People per km²3,0652,405
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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.

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.