VacationSelector

Limassol or New York?

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 value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

LimassolNew York
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 15 points.15
LimassolNew York
Score7964
Swim season months63
Beaches 10 km2717
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 52 points.52
LimassolNew York
Score4395
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2986,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1938
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 16 points.16
LimassolNew York
Score4460
Museums within 10 km17119
Museums within 2 km of centre1031
Share of museums within 2 km %5926
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. New York leads by 50 points.50
LimassolNew York
Score3989
Drinking venues within 4 km3404,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2562,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7548
Nightclubs within 4 km20192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 17 points.17
LimassolNew York
Score2239
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4969
Park area within 2 km32 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 56 points.56
LimassolNew York
Score1672
Tourist attractions within 2 km337
Park area within 2 km32 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. New York leads by 60 points.60
LimassolNew York
Score1474
Notable places within 2 km9268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 27 points.27
LimassolNew York
Score7043
Price level global61.4100
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 27 points.27
LimassolNew York
Score8558
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
New York
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
New York
No sunshine record

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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
10 h 0 m
€606-724
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
DublinDUB
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
6 h 40 m
€391-493
JFK · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 51 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 140 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

MeasureLimassolNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolNew York
City population107,9708,804,190
People per km²2,4057,256
Museums within 10 km2157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre28132
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. 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.