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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Limassol or Melbourne?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Limassol’s own page.

Choose Melbourne for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Limassol 77, Melbourne 50: Limassol leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Melbourne 57: Melbourne leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Melbourne 62: Limassol leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Melbourne 31: Limassol leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Melbourne.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Limassol
52match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Limassol in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Limassol has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Limassol's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Larnaca Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolMelbourne
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation10 m31 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolMelbourne
City population107,9705,350,705
People per km²2,405535
Museums within 10 km243
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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Sources

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. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.