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Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Laguna Beach 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 Laguna Beach for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Laguna Beach’s own page.

Choose Limassol for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • food and drink

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. Laguna Beach 72, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Laguna Beach 40, Limassol 58: Limassol leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Laguna Beach 27, Limassol 38: Limassol leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Laguna Beach 18, Limassol 50: Limassol leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Laguna Beach 73, Limassol 65: Laguna Beach leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Laguna Beach 72, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Laguna Beach 68, Limassol 63: Laguna Beach leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Laguna Beach 33, Limassol 38: Limassol leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Laguna Beach 46, Limassol 42: Laguna Beach leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Laguna Beach 12, Limassol 44: Limassol leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Laguna Beach 40, Limassol 32: Laguna Beach leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Laguna Beach 47, Limassol 42: Laguna Beach leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Laguna Beach and Limassol.

Your match

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

Laguna Beach
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on nightlife 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.

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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

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. Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLaguna BeachLimassol
Official language-Turkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation6 m10 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureLaguna BeachLimassol
City population23,032107,970
People per km²9072,405
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.