VacationSelector

Limassol or Santiago?

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

Your match

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Santiago
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LimassolSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
LimassolSantiago
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km270
Coast distance1 km89 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 29 points.29
LimassolSantiago
Score4372
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2981,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1932
Museums & heritage. Santiago leads by 1 points.1
LimassolSantiago
Score4445
Museums within 10 km1787
Museums within 2 km of centre1030
Share of museums within 2 km %5934
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 22 points.22
LimassolSantiago
Score3961
Drinking venues within 4 km340912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7559
Nightclubs within 4 km20112
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 30 points.30
LimassolSantiago
Score2252
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %49100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Santiago leads by 33 points.33
LimassolSantiago
Score1649
Tourist attractions within 2 km312
Park area within 2 km32 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Santiago leads by 34 points.34
LimassolSantiago
Score1448
Notable places within 2 km962
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 11 points.11
LimassolSantiago
Score7081
Price level global61.446.2
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol and Santiago are level on 85.
LimassolSantiago
Score8585
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months88
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
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11

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). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolSantiago
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 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

MeasureLimassolSantiago
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation10 m575 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolSantiago
City population107,9706,257,516
People per km²2,4057,468
Museums within 10 km254
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2864
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.