VacationSelector

Limassol or Reykjavik?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Limassol
46
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

LimassolReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 19 points.19
LimassolReykjavik
Score7960
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2733
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 6 points.6
LimassolReykjavik
Score4349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1929
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 6 points.6
LimassolReykjavik
Score4450
Museums within 10 km1734
Museums within 2 km of centre1023
Share of museums within 2 km %5968
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Limassol leads by 12 points.12
LimassolReykjavik
Score3927
Drinking venues within 4 km340192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7586
Nightclubs within 4 km2010
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 37 points.37
LimassolReykjavik
Score2259
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4956
Park area within 2 km32 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 26 points.26
LimassolReykjavik
Score1642
Tourist attractions within 2 km321
Park area within 2 km32 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 34 points.34
LimassolReykjavik
Score1448
Notable places within 2 km961
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 29 points.29
LimassolReykjavik
Score7041
Price level global61.4102.8
Daily budget€129€243
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 48 points.48
LimassolReykjavik
Score8537
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months80
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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

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). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
4 h 5 m
€281-315
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
OsloOSL, TRF
4 h 30 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 51 km
4 h 0 m
€157-219
KEF · 37 km
DublinDUB
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 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

MeasureLimassolReykjavik
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekIcelandic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m8 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolReykjavik
City population107,970138,772
People per km²2,405569
Museums within 10 km223
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2842
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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.