VacationSelector

Interlaken or Limassol?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Limassol
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

InterlakenLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
InterlakenLimassol
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km1227
Coast distance713 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Limassol leads by 14 points.14
InterlakenLimassol
Score2943
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1719
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 21 points.21
InterlakenLimassol
Score2344
Museums within 10 km517
Museums within 2 km of centre210
Share of museums within 2 km %4059
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Limassol leads by 35 points.35
InterlakenLimassol
Score439
Drinking venues within 4 km42340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9075
Nightclubs within 4 km320
Nature & day trips. Interlaken leads by 5 points.5
InterlakenLimassol
Score2722
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10049
Park area within 2 km5 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Limassol leads by 2 points.2
InterlakenLimassol
Score1416
Tourist attractions within 2 km113
Park area within 2 km5 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Interlaken leads by 8 points.8
InterlakenLimassol
Score2214
Notable places within 2 km149
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 35 points.35
InterlakenLimassol
Score3570
Price level global110.561.4
Daily budget€248€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 28 points.28
InterlakenLimassol
Score5785
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months38
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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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
No sunshine record
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 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 fromInterlakenLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
AthensATH
2 h 35 m
€213-216
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 35 m
€265-355
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
ThessalonikiSKG
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€164-214
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 51 km
AlmatyALA
6 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 135 km
5 h 10 m
€377-465
2 stops
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 2026-08 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

MeasureInterlakenLimassol
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m10 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenLimassol
City population6,123107,970
People per km²1,4242,405
Museums within 10 km32
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre2228
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). 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. 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.

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.