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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Limassol or Los Angeles?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • day trips

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

Choose Los Angeles for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’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, Los Angeles 60: Limassol leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Los Angeles 66: Los Angeles leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Los Angeles 67: Los Angeles leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Los Angeles 60: Limassol leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Los Angeles 25: Limassol leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Los Angeles 24: Limassol leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Los Angeles.

Your match

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

Limassol
52match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping 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

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolLos Angeles
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m106 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolLos Angeles
City population107,9703,898,747
People per km²2,4052,994
Museums within 10 km239
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
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. 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.

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.