VacationSelector

Limassol or Palermo?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
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.

LimassolPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 12 points.12
LimassolPalermo
Score7967
Swim season months65
Beaches 10 km2713
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 7 points.7
LimassolPalermo
Score4350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1913
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 6 points.6
LimassolPalermo
Score4450
Museums within 10 km1732
Museums within 2 km of centre1026
Share of museums within 2 km %5981
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 14 points.14
LimassolPalermo
Score3953
Drinking venues within 4 km340799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7564
Nightclubs within 4 km2016
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 14 points.14
LimassolPalermo
Score2236
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4945
Park area within 2 km32 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 25 points.25
LimassolPalermo
Score1641
Tourist attractions within 2 km316
Park area within 2 km32 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 43 points.43
LimassolPalermo
Score1457
Notable places within 2 km9104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 2 points.2
LimassolPalermo
Score7068
Price level global61.464.9
Daily budget€129€155
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 8 points.8
LimassolPalermo
Score8577
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months87
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

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). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolPalermo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TPS · 80 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
NaplesNAP
2 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 0 m
€114-166
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
BristolBRS
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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

MeasureLimassolPalermo
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m14 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolPalermo
City population107,970630,167
People per km²2,4053,924
Museums within 10 km242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2833
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months5 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.