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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Limassol or San Miguel de Allende?

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
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • culture and sights
  • wellness
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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 Miguel de Allende 4: Limassol leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, San Miguel de Allende 38: Limassol leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, San Miguel de Allende 40: Limassol leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, San Miguel de Allende 32: Limassol leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, San Miguel de Allende 48: San Miguel de Allende leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, San Miguel de Allende 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on culture and sights and wellness 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 Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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LimassolSan Miguel de Allende

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.

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m1,900 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolSan Miguel de Allende
City population107,97069,811
People per km²2,405-
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.