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Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Limassol or Yokohama?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Limassol leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Limassol 58, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Limassol 38, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Limassol 50, Yokohama 44: Limassol leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Limassol 65, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Limassol 76, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Limassol 63, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Limassol 38, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. Limassol 42, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Limassol 44, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Limassol 32, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Limassol 42, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Limassol and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Limassol
52match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °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.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

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). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimassolYokohama
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m24 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolYokohama
City population107,9703,757,630
People per km²2,4058,585
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.