VacationSelector

Limassol or Maastricht?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
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.

LimassolMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
LimassolMaastricht
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km276
Coast distance1 km118 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Maastricht leads by 5 points.5
LimassolMaastricht
Score4348
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1922
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 9 points.9
LimassolMaastricht
Score4453
Museums within 10 km1723
Museums within 2 km of centre1013
Share of museums within 2 km %5957
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Limassol leads by 9 points.9
LimassolMaastricht
Score3930
Drinking venues within 4 km340223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7582
Nightclubs within 4 km2013
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 15 points.15
LimassolMaastricht
Score2237
Protected land share 50 km %219
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %49100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 30 points.30
LimassolMaastricht
Score1646
Tourist attractions within 2 km315
Park area within 2 km32 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Maastricht leads by 22 points.22
LimassolMaastricht
Score1436
Notable places within 2 km932
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 12 points.12
LimassolMaastricht
Score7058
Price level global61.479.2
Daily budget€129€181
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 26 points.26
LimassolMaastricht
Score8559
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolMaastricht
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 97 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 51 km
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
SofiaSOF
2 h 5 m
€186-300
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 40 m
€98-110
EIN · 70 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 51 km
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
€129-174
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 50 m
€109-130
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€110-159
PFO · 51 km
2 h 40 m
€111-224
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 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

MeasureLimassolMaastricht
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation10 m49 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolMaastricht
City population107,970120,227
People per km²2,4052,000
Museums within 10 km221
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre2833
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.