VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Limassol?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage 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.

Hong KongLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongLimassol
Score8779
Swim season months86
Beaches 10 km6527
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 45 points.45
Hong KongLimassol
Score8843
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3219
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongLimassol
Score3644
Museums within 10 km5017
Museums within 2 km of centre1710
Share of museums within 2 km %3459
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 32 points.32
Hong KongLimassol
Score7139
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5975
Nightclubs within 4 km3720
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 42 points.42
Hong KongLimassol
Score6422
Protected land share 50 km %82
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2949
Park area within 2 km52 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 42 points.42
Hong KongLimassol
Score5816
Tourist attractions within 2 km273
Park area within 2 km52 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 55 points.55
Hong KongLimassol
Score6914
Notable places within 2 km2049
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 7 points.7
Hong KongLimassol
Score6370
Price level global7261.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 11 points.11
Hong KongLimassol
Score7485
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months48
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 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 fromHong KongLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
9 h 45 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 50 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
BudapestBUD
10 h 40 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 51 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 58 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 2026-09 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

MeasureHong KongLimassol
Official languageStandard ChineseTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m10 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongLimassol
City population7,413,070107,970
People per km²2,405
Museums within 10 km392
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7628
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months6 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.