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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San FranciscoThe Golden Gate Bridge

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; San Francisco by Elijah Cobb, Pexels License.

Limassol or San Francisco?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose San Francisco for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on San Francisco’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, San Francisco 25: Limassol leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, San Francisco 82: San Francisco leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, San Francisco 68: San Francisco leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, San Francisco 80: San Francisco leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, San Francisco 72: Limassol leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, San Francisco 66: San Francisco leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, San Francisco 70: San Francisco leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, San Francisco 14: Limassol leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, San Francisco 76: San Francisco leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol and San Francisco are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and San Francisco.

Your match

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

Limassol
52match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

San Francisco
Best match
59match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around 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

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °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.

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). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolSan Francisco
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-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m16 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolSan Francisco
City population107,970873,965
People per km²2,4051,455
Museums within 10 km251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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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.