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Limassol or Tampa?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Limassol
46
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

LimassolTampa
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 4 points.4
LimassolTampa
Score7975
Swim season months68
Beaches 10 km2710
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 11 points.11
LimassolTampa
Score4354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1931
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 17 points.17
LimassolTampa
Score4427
Museums within 10 km1713
Museums within 2 km of centre1010
Share of museums within 2 km %5977
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Limassol and Tampa are level on 39.
LimassolTampa
Score3939
Drinking venues within 4 km340324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7570
Nightclubs within 4 km2026
Nature & day trips. Tampa leads by 8 points.8
LimassolTampa
Score2230
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4972
Park area within 2 km32 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Tampa leads by 14 points.14
LimassolTampa
Score1630
Tourist attractions within 2 km33
Park area within 2 km32 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Tampa leads by 7 points.7
LimassolTampa
Score1421
Notable places within 2 km913
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 27 points.27
LimassolTampa
Score7043
Price level global61.4100
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 10 points.10
LimassolTampa
Score8575
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months81
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
EdinburghEDI
4 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DublinDUB
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 35 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureLimassolTampa
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-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m30 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolTampa
City population107,970384,959
People per km²2,405848
Museums within 10 km26
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2847
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months8 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.