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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License.

Limassol or Lisbon?

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 Limassol for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Lisbon for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Lisbon’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. Limassol 77, Lisbon 50: Limassol leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Lisbon 78: Lisbon leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Lisbon 82: Lisbon leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Lisbon 62: Limassol leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Lisbon 66: Lisbon leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Lisbon 60: Lisbon leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Lisbon 55: Lisbon leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Lisbon 60: Lisbon leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Lisbon 36: Limassol leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Lisbon.

Your match

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

Limassol
52match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 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. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolLisbon
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m100 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolLisbon
City population107,970545,796
People per km²2,4055,453
Museums within 10 km280
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. 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 figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.