VacationSelector

Limassol or Oslo?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips 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.

LimassolOslo
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 19 points.19
LimassolOslo
Score7960
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km27163
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 24 points.24
LimassolOslo
Score4367
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1934
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 4 points.4
LimassolOslo
Score4448
Museums within 10 km1770
Museums within 2 km of centre1037
Share of museums within 2 km %5953
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 14 points.14
LimassolOslo
Score3953
Drinking venues within 4 km340695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7581
Nightclubs within 4 km2041
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 39 points.39
LimassolOslo
Score2261
Protected land share 50 km %222
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %4994
Park area within 2 km32 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 32 points.32
LimassolOslo
Score1648
Tourist attractions within 2 km313
Park area within 2 km32 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 55 points.55
LimassolOslo
Score1469
Notable places within 2 km9207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 16 points.16
LimassolOslo
Score7054
Price level global61.485.1
Daily budget€129€203
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 37 points.37
LimassolOslo
Score8548
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

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). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 10 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 51 km
1 h 55 m
€51-85
OSL · 37 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
€129-174
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 10 m
€47-64
OSL · 37 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 51 km
2 h 25 m
€110-147
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
3 h 5 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 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

MeasureLimassolOslo
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation10 m23 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolOslo
City population107,970717,710
People per km²2,405–
Museums within 10 km260
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2875
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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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.