VacationSelector

Limassol or Malaga?

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.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

LimassolMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 13 points.13
LimassolMalaga
Score7966
Swim season months63
Beaches 10 km2721
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 26 points.26
LimassolMalaga
Score4369
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2981,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1934
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 9 points.9
LimassolMalaga
Score4453
Museums within 10 km1740
Museums within 2 km of centre1035
Share of museums within 2 km %5988
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 15 points.15
LimassolMalaga
Score3954
Drinking venues within 4 km340715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7568
Nightclubs within 4 km2045
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 21 points.21
LimassolMalaga
Score2243
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4963
Park area within 2 km32 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 37 points.37
LimassolMalaga
Score1653
Tourist attractions within 2 km333
Park area within 2 km32 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Malaga leads by 23 points.23
LimassolMalaga
Score1437
Notable places within 2 km933
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 1 points.1
LimassolMalaga
Score7071
Price level global61.460.8
Daily budget€129€122
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 3 points.3
LimassolMalaga
Score8582
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months85
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

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). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolMalaga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
BristolBRS
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 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

MeasureLimassolMalaga
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 m18 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolMalaga
City population107,970599,063
People per km²2,4051,517
Museums within 10 km232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2865
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months3 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.