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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Limassol or Victoria Falls?

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

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nightlife

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Limassol leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Victoria Falls 24: Limassol leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Victoria Falls 12: Limassol leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Victoria Falls 8: Limassol leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Victoria Falls 22: Limassol leads by 54 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Victoria Falls 38: Limassol leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Victoria Falls 45: Victoria Falls leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Victoria Falls 18: Limassol leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Victoria Falls 32: Limassol leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Victoria Falls 10: Limassol leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Victoria Falls 34: Limassol leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolVictoria Falls
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112999
Elevation10 m961 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolVictoria Falls
City population107,97033,060
People per km²2,405-
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.