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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Limassol or Ocho Rios?

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

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocho Rios’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, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Ocho Rios 42: Limassol leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Ocho Rios 16: Limassol leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Ocho Rios 28: Limassol leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Ocho Rios 72: Ocho Rios leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Ocho Rios 56: Limassol leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Ocho Rios 60: Limassol leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Ocho Rios 24: Limassol leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Ocho Rios 26: Limassol leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Ocho Rios 42: Limassol leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Ocho Rios 14: Limassol leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Ocho Rios 50: Ocho Rios leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Ocho Rios in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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.

Ocho Rios's temperatures are measured 62 km from the centre, at Kingston / Norman Manley.

Ocho Rios 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.

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). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolOcho Rios
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation10 m59 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolOcho Rios
City population107,97016,671
People per km²2,405-
Museums within 10 km20
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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.