VacationSelector

Limassol or London?

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

Your match

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

LimassolLondon
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
LimassolLondon
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2747
Coast distance1 km43 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. London leads by 45 points.45
LimassolLondon
Score4388
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2983,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1940
Museums & heritage. London leads by 28 points.28
LimassolLondon
Score4472
Museums within 10 km17148
Museums within 2 km of centre1049
Share of museums within 2 km %5933
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. London leads by 56 points.56
LimassolLondon
Score3995
Drinking venues within 4 km3405,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2562,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7546
Nightclubs within 4 km20312
Nature & day trips. London leads by 18 points.18
LimassolLondon
Score2240
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %014
Land share of disc %4997
Park area within 2 km32 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 59 points.59
LimassolLondon
Score1675
Tourist attractions within 2 km385
Park area within 2 km32 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. London leads by 75 points.75
LimassolLondon
Score1489
Notable places within 2 km9649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 16 points.16
LimassolLondon
Score7054
Price level global61.484.9
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 22 points.22
LimassolLondon
Score8563
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months81
0255075100

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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
London
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolLondon
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
LTN · 44 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
3 h 30 m
€258-349
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
ChaniaCHQ
1 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 0 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
4 h 5 m
€144-189
LGW · 40 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 10 m
€377-465
2 stops
LCA · 58 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 23 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

MeasureLimassolLondon
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m4 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolLondon
City population107,9708,799,728
People per km²2,4055,598
Museums within 10 km2215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre28116
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. 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.