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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Limassol or Salzburg?

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
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: Limassol leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Salzburg 45: Limassol leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Salzburg 25: Limassol leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Salzburg 32: Limassol leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Salzburg 55: Salzburg leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Salzburg.

Your match

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

Limassol
52match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine 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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolSalzburg
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m424 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolSalzburg
City population107,970155,021
People per km²2,4052,360
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.