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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Limassol or Phnom Penh?

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

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Phnom Penh for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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, Phnom Penh 6: Limassol leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Phnom Penh 58: Phnom Penh leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Phnom Penh 28: Limassol leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Phnom Penh 34: Limassol leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Phnom Penh 32: Limassol leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Phnom Penh 35: Limassol leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Phnom Penh 46: Phnom Penh leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol and Phnom Penh are level on 32.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Phnom Penh 50: Phnom Penh leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Phnom Penh.

Your match

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

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Phnom Penh
44match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

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). Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolPhnom Penh
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekKhmer
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Riel (KHR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation10 m11 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolPhnom Penh
City population107,9702,129,371
People per km²2,4053,138
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.