VacationSelector

Limassol or Manchester?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Manchester
47
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

LimassolManchester
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 51 points.51
LimassolManchester
Score7928
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2710
Coast distance1 km27 km
Water distance1 km27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 25 points.25
LimassolManchester
Score4368
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1935
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 2 points.2
LimassolManchester
Score4442
Museums within 10 km1723
Museums within 2 km of centre1011
Share of museums within 2 km %5948
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 23 points.23
LimassolManchester
Score3962
Drinking venues within 4 km3401,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7577
Nightclubs within 4 km2082
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 14 points.14
LimassolManchester
Score2236
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %4999
Park area within 2 km32 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Manchester leads by 16 points.16
LimassolManchester
Score1632
Tourist attractions within 2 km35
Park area within 2 km32 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 34 points.34
LimassolManchester
Score1448
Notable places within 2 km961
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 16 points.16
LimassolManchester
Score7054
Price level global61.484.9
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 31 points.31
LimassolManchester
Score8554
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolManchester
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ChaniaCHQ
1 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
NaplesNAP
2 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
OsloOSL, TRF
4 h 30 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BerlinBER
3 h 35 m
€265-355
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
1 h 55 m
€352-493
2 stops
MAN · 15 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureLimassolManchester
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m38 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolManchester
City population107,970547,627
People per km²2,4054,737
Museums within 10 km228
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre2863
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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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.