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The Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill, Halifax
HalifaxThe Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Halifax by Danieljmacdonald, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Halifax 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 Halifax for

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

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

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • day trips

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. Halifax 32, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Halifax 50, Limassol 58: Limassol leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Halifax 42, Limassol 38: Halifax leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Halifax 46, Limassol 50: Limassol leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Halifax 62, Limassol 65: Limassol leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Halifax 63, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Halifax 55, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Halifax 48, Limassol 38: Halifax leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Halifax 35, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Halifax 38, Limassol 44: Limassol leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Halifax 46, Limassol 32: Halifax leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Halifax 28, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Halifax and Limassol.

Your match

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

Halifax
45match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around 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.

Halifax in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °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

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. Halifax: 1991-2020 normals, Shearwater Airport (6 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHalifaxLimassol
Official languageFrench, EnglishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation28 m10 m
Main airportHalifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)26 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureHalifaxLimassol
City population440,072107,970
People per km²802,405
Museums within 10 km152
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). 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.