VacationSelector

Limassol or Madrid?

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.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
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.

LimassolMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
LimassolMadrid
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km274
Coast distance1 km305 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 40 points.40
LimassolMadrid
Score4383
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2983,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1928
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 31 points.31
LimassolMadrid
Score4475
Museums within 10 km1797
Museums within 2 km of centre1059
Share of museums within 2 km %5961
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 42 points.42
LimassolMadrid
Score3981
Drinking venues within 4 km3402,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2561,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7562
Nightclubs within 4 km20341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 41 points.41
LimassolMadrid
Score2263
Protected land share 50 km %219
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %49100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 61 points.61
LimassolMadrid
Score1677
Tourist attractions within 2 km361
Park area within 2 km32 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 61 points.61
LimassolMadrid
Score1475
Notable places within 2 km9288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 1 points.1
LimassolMadrid
Score7071
Price level global61.460.8
Daily budget€129€122
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 13 points.13
LimassolMadrid
Score8572
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months87
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

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). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolMadrid
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
2 h 15 m
€99-166
MAD · 14 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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

MeasureLimassolMadrid
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekSpanish
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
Elevation10 m663 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolMadrid
City population107,9703,506,730
People per km²2,4055,801
Museums within 10 km288
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre28106
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.