VacationSelector

Limassol or Thessaloniki?

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 and year-round weather with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

LimassolThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 24 points.24
LimassolThessaloniki
Score7955
Swim season months65
Beaches 10 km274
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Thessaloniki leads by 7 points.7
LimassolThessaloniki
Score4350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1915
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 5 points.5
LimassolThessaloniki
Score4449
Museums within 10 km1734
Museums within 2 km of centre1022
Share of museums within 2 km %5965
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 28 points.28
LimassolThessaloniki
Score3967
Drinking venues within 4 km3401,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7557
Nightclubs within 4 km2061
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 43 points.43
LimassolThessaloniki
Score2265
Protected land share 50 km %225
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4983
Park area within 2 km32 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Thessaloniki leads by 25 points.25
LimassolThessaloniki
Score1641
Tourist attractions within 2 km316
Park area within 2 km32 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 42 points.42
LimassolThessaloniki
Score1456
Notable places within 2 km998
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.4
LimassolThessaloniki
Score7074
Price level global61.455.8
Daily budget€129€125
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 13 points.13
LimassolThessaloniki
Score8572
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months89
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Thessaloniki
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
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolThessaloniki
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€110-159
PFO · 51 km
1 h 15 m
€86-115
SKG · 14 km
HeraklionHER
1 h 35 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
BerlinBER
3 h 35 m
€265-355
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
2 h 25 m
€156-243
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 51 km
1 h 40 m
€84-120
SKG · 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

MeasureLimassolThessaloniki
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolThessaloniki
City population107,970309,617
People per km²2,40516,042
Museums within 10 km231
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2845
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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.