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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels

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

Limassol or Orange 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

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Orange Beach for

  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange 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, Orange Beach 86: Orange Beach leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Orange Beach 40: Limassol leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Orange Beach 7: Limassol leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Orange Beach 30: Limassol leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Orange Beach 60: Limassol leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Orange Beach 50: Limassol leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Orange Beach 75: Orange Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Orange Beach 15: Limassol leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Orange Beach 25: Limassol leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Orange Beach 38: Limassol leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol and Orange Beach are level on 32.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Orange Beach 32: Limassol leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Orange Beach.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Orange Beach
41match

Wins on families and beaches 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

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 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). Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolOrange 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-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m4 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolOrange Beach
City population107,9708,095
People per km²2,405196
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months8 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.