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Limassol

Match

46

  • Beach first60
  • Culture first41
  • Food & nightlife43
  • Family trip48
  • Nature first48
  • Good weather56
  • On a budget50

The nine measures

Each scored 0 to 100 against fixed anchors, so a score means the same thing on every page. Open a row for the figures behind it.

Beaches & swimming. Scores 79 out of 100.79
Score79
Swim season months6
Beaches 10 km27
Coast distance1 km
Water distance1 km

Sea reaches 21 °C or more in 6 months, 27 beaches lie within 10 km, and the water is 1 km away.

Places to eat. Scores 43 out of 100.43
Score43
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km19

298 restaurants within 2 km of the centre, spread across an effective 19 kitchens.

Museums & heritage. Scores 44 out of 100.44
Score44
Museums within 10 km17
Museums within 2 km of centre10
Share of museums within 2 km %59
Unesco sites within 50 km3

17 museums mapped within 10 km, 59% of them within 2 km of the centre, and 3 whole UNESCO inscriptions within 50 km.

Nightlife. Scores 39 out of 100.39
Score39
Drinking venues within 4 km340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %75
Nightclubs within 4 km20

340 places to drink within 4 km, 20 nightclubs among them, and 75% of the drinking venues within 2 km of the centre.

Nature & day trips. Scores 22 out of 100.22
Score22
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %0
Land share of disc %49
Park area within 2 km32 hectares

2% of the 50 km disc around the city is protected land, and there are 32 hectares of park within 2 km of the centre.

Good for families. Scores 16 out of 100.16
Score16
Tourist attractions within 2 km3
Park area within 2 km32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km0

3 tourist attractions within 2 km beside 32 hectares of park, and 0 theme parks within 30 km.

Sights concentration. Scores 14 out of 100.14
Score14
Notable places within 2 km9
Min wikipedia languages5

9 notable places within 2 km of the centre, counting places with a Wikipedia presence in at least five languages.

Value for money. Scores 70 out of 100.70
Score70
Price level global61.4
Daily budget€129

National price level of 61.4 against the United States at 100, scored on a fixed scale from 20, the cheapest countries anyone travels to, to 160, the most expensive. The estimated daily budget there is €129.

Year-round weather. Scores 85 out of 100.85
Score85
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months8

Daytime highs run 17-31 °C across the year, with 8 month(s) at 40 mm of rain or less.

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When should you go?

The figures behind each month, shaded against this city's own year: the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest.

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Daytime high, °C
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
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. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
BristolBRS
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 10 m
€377-465
2 stops
LCA · 58 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
NewcastleNCL
4 h 45 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km

The busiest departure cities for Limassol, 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. 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. 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

MeasureLimassol
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112
Elevation10 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassol
City population107,970
People per km²2,405
Museums within 10 km2
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km3
Distinct cuisines in the centre28
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-09-01. Every destination we have measured.