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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
Château Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace, Quebec City
Quebec CityChâteau Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Quebec City by Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Limassol or Quebec City?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Quebec City for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Quebec City’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, Quebec City 18: Limassol leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Quebec City 57: Limassol leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Quebec City 70: Quebec City leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Quebec City 42: Limassol leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Quebec City 79: Quebec City leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Quebec City 58: Limassol leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Quebec City 64: Quebec City leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Quebec City 50: Quebec City leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Quebec City 45: Quebec City leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Quebec City 45: Quebec City leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Quebec City 52: Quebec City leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Quebec City 55: Quebec City leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Quebec City.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Limassol
52match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Quebec City
53match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Quebec City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
119 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolQuebec City
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m98 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolQuebec City
City population107,970574,482
People per km²2,4051,184
Museums within 10 km216
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.