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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
The beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier, Virginia Beach
Virginia BeachThe beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Virginia Beach by SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Limassol or Virginia Beach?

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

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Virginia Beach for

  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Virginia Beach’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 and Virginia Beach are level on 77.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Virginia Beach 42: Limassol leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Virginia Beach 30: Limassol leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Virginia Beach 37: Limassol leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Virginia Beach 56: Limassol leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Virginia Beach 64: Limassol leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Virginia Beach 75: Virginia Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Virginia Beach 27: Limassol leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Virginia Beach 32: Limassol leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Virginia Beach 40: Limassol leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Virginia Beach 38: Virginia Beach leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Virginia Beach 32: Limassol leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Virginia Beach.

Your match

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

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife with your weighting.

Virginia Beach
46match

Wins on families and live music and the arts 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

Virginia Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
152 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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). Virginia Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Virginia Beach / Gatewood Park (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolVirginia Beach
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 m7 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsNorfolk International Airport (ORF)20 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolVirginia Beach
City population107,970459,470
People per km²2,405-
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months4 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.