VacationSelector

Hamburg or Limassol?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

HamburgLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
HamburgLimassol
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km1627
Coast distance22 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 30 points.30
HamburgLimassol
Score7343
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,150298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3819
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 16 points.16
HamburgLimassol
Score6044
Museums within 10 km9417
Museums within 2 km of centre5010
Share of museums within 2 km %5359
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 29 points.29
HamburgLimassol
Score6839
Drinking venues within 4 km1,339340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre834256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6275
Nightclubs within 4 km11920
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 18 points.18
HamburgLimassol
Score4022
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %9949
Park area within 2 km89 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 44 points.44
HamburgLimassol
Score6016
Tourist attractions within 2 km403
Park area within 2 km89 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 45 points.45
HamburgLimassol
Score5914
Notable places within 2 km1189
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 10 points.10
HamburgLimassol
Score6070
Price level global75.961.4
Daily budget€163€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 30 points.30
HamburgLimassol
Score5585
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months18
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 20 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
ThessalonikiSKG
2 h 45 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, 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 to both. 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. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureHamburgLimassol
Official languageGermanTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m10 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgLimassol
City population1,910,160107,970
People per km²2,5302,405
Museums within 10 km772
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8328
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.