VacationSelector

Limassol or Sorrento?

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

Your match

Limassol
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

LimassolSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 2 points.2
LimassolSorrento
Score7977
Swim season months65
Beaches 10 km2778
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Limassol leads by 24 points.24
LimassolSorrento
Score4319
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km195
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 7 points.7
LimassolSorrento
Score4437
Museums within 10 km177
Museums within 2 km of centre104
Share of museums within 2 km %5957
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Limassol leads by 17 points.17
LimassolSorrento
Score3922
Drinking venues within 4 km340179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7573
Nightclubs within 4 km202
Nature & day trips. Sorrento leads by 1 points.1
LimassolSorrento
Score2223
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4942
Park area within 2 km32 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Limassol leads by 11 points.11
LimassolSorrento
Score165
Tourist attractions within 2 km32
Park area within 2 km32 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Limassol leads by 4 points.4
LimassolSorrento
Score1410
Notable places within 2 km97
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 2 points.2
LimassolSorrento
Score7068
Price level global61.464.9
Daily budget€129€155
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 12 points.12
LimassolSorrento
Score8573
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months83
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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4

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). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolSorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 45 m
€107-164
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 51 km
1 h 40 m
€81-107
NAP · 30 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€110-159
PFO · 51 km
1 h 55 m
€80-128
NAP · 30 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

MeasureLimassolSorrento
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m50 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolSorrento
City population107,97015,407
People per km²2,4051,541
Museums within 10 km25
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre2811
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months5 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.