VacationSelector
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Limassol or Valletta?

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

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Valletta for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Limassol leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Valletta 55: Limassol leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Valletta 46: Limassol leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Valletta 56: Limassol leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Limassol and Valletta are level on 76.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Valletta 58: Limassol leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Valletta 38: Limassol leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Valletta 32: Limassol leads by 10 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Valletta.

Your match

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

Limassol
52match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

Valletta
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

020406080100JFMAMJJASOND
LimassolValletta

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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolValletta
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m56 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolValletta
City population107,9705,197
People per km²2,4056,496
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months6 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Limassol or Valletta somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.