VacationSelector

Limassol or Porto?

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.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

LimassolPorto
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 19 points.19
LimassolPorto
Score7960
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2752
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 25 points.25
LimassolPorto
Score4368
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2981,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1927
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 27 points.27
LimassolPorto
Score4471
Museums within 10 km17101
Museums within 2 km of centre1057
Share of museums within 2 km %5956
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Porto leads by 19 points.19
LimassolPorto
Score3958
Drinking venues within 4 km340900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7563
Nightclubs within 4 km2038
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 11 points.11
LimassolPorto
Score2233
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4961
Park area within 2 km32 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 49 points.49
LimassolPorto
Score1665
Tourist attractions within 2 km3122
Park area within 2 km32 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 40 points.40
LimassolPorto
Score1454
Notable places within 2 km985
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 4 points.4
LimassolPorto
Score7074
Price level global61.455.9
Daily budget€129€109
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 14 points.14
LimassolPorto
Score8571
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months83
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolPorto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BristolBRS
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 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

MeasureLimassolPorto
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m104 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolPorto
City population107,970231,800
People per km²2,4055,599
Museums within 10 km242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre2870
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. 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.