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Kathmandu or Limassol?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
Kathmandu

Photo: Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
Limassol

Photo: Julian Lupyan, CC0

Your match

Kathmandu
48
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Limassol
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

KathmanduLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 73 points.73
Food & drink. Limassol leads by 3 points.3
Culture & sights. Kathmandu leads by 44 points.44
Nightlife. Limassol leads by 14 points.14
Nature & outdoors. Kathmandu leads by 5 points.5
Day trips. Limassol leads by 20 points.20
Good for families. Limassol leads by 43 points.43
Getting around. Limassol leads by 13 points.13
Shopping & style. Kathmandu leads by 13 points.13
Affordability. Kathmandu leads by 53 points.53
Live music & performing arts. Limassol leads by 4 points.4
Wellness & relaxation. Kathmandu leads by 3 points.3
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kathmandu and Limassol.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyKathmanduLimassol
Daytime high29 °C31 °C
Night-time low20 °C24 °C
Rainfall in the month384 mm1 mm
Sunshine4 hours a day13 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea26 °C
Daylight14 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Kathmandu
19
22
26
29
29
29
29
29
28
27
23
20
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Kathmandu
No coastline within reach
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Kathmandu
16
23
37
57
113
260
384
317
211
48
7
10
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Kathmandu
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Kathmandu
6
6
7
7
7
5
4
4
5
7
7
7
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

Where the figures come from

Limassol's rainfall is measured 59 km from the centre, at Larnaca Airport.

Limassol's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Larnaca Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 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 fromKathmanduLimassol
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 10 m
€400-446
KTM · 4 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
DohaDOH
4 h 35 m
€459-552
KTM · 4 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
Kuwait CityKWI
4 h 55 m
no fares
KTM · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
6 h 55 m
€583-665
1 stop
KTM · 4 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
Abu DhabiAUH
4 h 15 m
€415-478
KTM · 4 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureKathmanduLimassol
Official languageNepaliTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyNepalese Rupee (NPR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:45UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 100, ambulance 102, fire 101112
Elevation1,300 m10 m
Main airportTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-17 days

By the numbers

MeasureKathmanduLimassol
City population845,767107,970
People per km²17,1212,405
Museums within 10 km92
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.