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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Cork 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 Cork for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

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. Cork 25, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Cork and Limassol are level on 58.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Limassol 38: Cork leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Limassol 50: Limassol leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Limassol 65: Limassol leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Limassol 38: Cork leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Limassol 44: Limassol leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Limassol 32: Cork leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Limassol.

Your match

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

Cork
45match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches 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.

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkLimassol
Official languageEnglish, IrishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkLimassol
City population222,333107,970
People per km²5,9612,405
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.