VacationSelector

Limassol or Nice?

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

Nice
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration 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.

LimassolNice
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 6 points.6
LimassolNice
Score7973
Swim season months64
Beaches 10 km2770
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 26 points.26
LimassolNice
Score4369
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2981,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1928
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 2 points.2
LimassolNice
Score4446
Museums within 10 km1727
Museums within 2 km of centre1014
Share of museums within 2 km %5952
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Nice leads by 5 points.5
LimassolNice
Score3944
Drinking venues within 4 km340428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7591
Nightclubs within 4 km2026
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 35 points.35
LimassolNice
Score2257
Protected land share 50 km %224
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %4962
Park area within 2 km32 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Nice leads by 14 points.14
LimassolNice
Score1630
Tourist attractions within 2 km34
Park area within 2 km32 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Nice leads by 33 points.33
LimassolNice
Score1447
Notable places within 2 km960
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 8 points.8
LimassolNice
Score7062
Price level global61.473.7
Daily budget€129€160
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 11 points.11
LimassolNice
Score8574
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months83
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
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). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolNice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 6 km
BristolBRS
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
GenevaGVA
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 6 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

MeasureLimassolNice
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolNice
City population107,970357,737
People per km²2,4054,975
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre2865
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months4 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.