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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
Wat Xieng Thong temple, Luang Prabang
Luang PrabangWat Xieng Thong temple

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Luang Prabang by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Limassol or Luang Prabang?

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
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Luang Prabang for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Luang Prabang’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, Luang Prabang 14: Limassol leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Luang Prabang 42: Limassol leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Luang Prabang 65: Luang Prabang leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Luang Prabang 8: Limassol leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Luang Prabang 68: Luang Prabang leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Luang Prabang 35: Limassol leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Luang Prabang 38: Limassol leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Luang Prabang 50: Luang Prabang leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Luang Prabang 38: Limassol leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Luang Prabang 80: Luang Prabang leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Luang Prabang 18: Limassol leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Luang Prabang 60: Luang Prabang leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Luang Prabang.

Your match

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

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Luang Prabang
43match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Luang Prabang in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
250 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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). Luang Prabang: 1991-2020 normals, Luang-Prabang (0.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolLuang Prabang
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekLao
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lao Kip (LAK)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzABCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 195, fire 190
Elevation10 m305 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsLuang Phabang International Airport (LPQ)4 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolLuang Prabang
City population107,97053,792
People per km²2,405-
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months-

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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.