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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Limassol or Rehoboth Beach?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • getting around
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Rehoboth Beach’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, Rehoboth Beach 70: Limassol leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Rehoboth Beach 44: Limassol leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Rehoboth Beach 14: Limassol leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Rehoboth Beach 40: Limassol leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Rehoboth Beach 50: Limassol leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Rehoboth Beach 50: Limassol leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Rehoboth Beach 32: Limassol leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Rehoboth Beach 28: Limassol leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Rehoboth Beach 32: Limassol leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on getting around and families 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

Rehoboth Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 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.

Rehoboth Beach 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.

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). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolRehoboth Beach
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m5 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolRehoboth Beach
City population107,9701,108
People per km²2,405258
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months3 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.