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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Key West 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 Key West for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Limassol for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • families

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. Key West 60, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Key West 45, Limassol 58: Limassol leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Limassol 38: Key West leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Key West 62, Limassol 50: Key West leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Limassol 65: Limassol leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Limassol 38: Key West leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Limassol 44: Limassol leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Limassol 32: Key West leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West and Limassol.

Your match

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

Key West
44match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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 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. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestLimassol
Official language-Turkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m10 m
Main airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureKey WestLimassol
City population26,444107,970
People per km²1,4072,405
Museums within 10 km72
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.