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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Limassol or Miami Beach?

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

  • prices
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Miami Beach for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami Beach’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, Miami Beach 92: Miami Beach leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Miami Beach 62: Miami Beach leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Miami Beach 52: Miami Beach leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Miami Beach 80: Miami Beach leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Miami Beach 52: Limassol leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Miami Beach 55: Limassol leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Miami Beach 60: Limassol leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Miami Beach 58: Miami Beach leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Miami Beach 20: Limassol leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Miami Beach 48: Miami Beach leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Miami Beach.

Your match

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Limassol
52match

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Miami Beach
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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). Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolMiami Beach
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m1 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolMiami Beach
City population107,97082,890
People per km²2,4052,109
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months12 months

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.