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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Limassol or Tunis?

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

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: Limassol leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Tunis 33: Limassol leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Tunis 45: Limassol leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Tunis 38: Limassol leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Tunis 48: Tunis leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Tunis.

Your match

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

Limassol
52match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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.

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). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolTunis
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation10 m4 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolTunis
City population107,970602,560
People per km²2,4052,834
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months5 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.