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Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Florianopolis 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 Florianopolis for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Limassol for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • shopping

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. Florianopolis 85, Limassol 77: Florianopolis leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Florianopolis and Limassol are level on 58.
Culture & sights. Florianopolis 33, Limassol 38: Limassol leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Florianopolis 60, Limassol 50: Florianopolis leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florianopolis 78, Limassol 65: Florianopolis leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Florianopolis 50, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Florianopolis 60, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Florianopolis 28, Limassol 38: Limassol leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Florianopolis 33, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Florianopolis 60, Limassol 44: Florianopolis leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florianopolis 28, Limassol 32: Limassol leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florianopolis 45, Limassol 42: Florianopolis leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florianopolis and Limassol.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Florianopolis
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Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Limassol
52match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 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. Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorianopolisLimassol
Official languagePortugueseTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCN60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorianopolisLimassol
City population587,486107,970
People per km²8702,405
Museums within 10 km112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.