VacationSelector

Limassol or Lucerne?

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

Your match

Limassol
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

LimassolLucerne
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
LimassolLucerne
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2716
Coast distance1 km669 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Lucerne leads by 4 points.4
LimassolLucerne
Score4347
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1925
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 4 points.4
LimassolLucerne
Score4440
Museums within 10 km1723
Museums within 2 km of centre1013
Share of museums within 2 km %5957
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Limassol leads by 11 points.11
LimassolLucerne
Score3928
Drinking venues within 4 km340202
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256151
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7575
Nightclubs within 4 km2011
Nature & day trips. Lucerne leads by 3 points.3
LimassolLucerne
Score2225
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %49100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Lucerne leads by 22 points.22
LimassolLucerne
Score1638
Tourist attractions within 2 km315
Park area within 2 km32 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Lucerne leads by 21 points.21
LimassolLucerne
Score1435
Notable places within 2 km929
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 35 points.35
LimassolLucerne
Score7035
Price level global61.4110.5
Daily budget€129€248
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 32 points.32
LimassolLucerne
Score8553
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm60 mm to 128 mm
Dry months80
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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

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). Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolLucerne
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 35 m
€213-216
ZRH · 49 km
BerlinBER
3 h 35 m
€265-355
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 49 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 51 km
1 h 55 m
€164-214
ZRH · 49 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureLimassolLucerne
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m436 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolLucerne
City population107,97086,234
People per km²2,4052,963
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2846
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.