VacationSelector

Limassol or Zadar?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Limassol
46
match

Wins on places to eat and year-round weather with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LimassolZadar
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 6 points.6
LimassolZadar
Score7973
Swim season months64
Beaches 10 km2749
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Limassol leads by 18 points.18
LimassolZadar
Score4325
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1911
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 11 points.11
LimassolZadar
Score4433
Museums within 10 km178
Museums within 2 km of centre108
Share of museums within 2 km %59100
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Limassol leads by 14 points.14
LimassolZadar
Score3925
Drinking venues within 4 km340194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7572
Nightclubs within 4 km204
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 33 points.33
LimassolZadar
Score2255
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4947
Park area within 2 km32 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Zadar leads by 15 points.15
LimassolZadar
Score1631
Tourist attractions within 2 km39
Park area within 2 km32 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Zadar leads by 17 points.17
LimassolZadar
Score1431
Notable places within 2 km923
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 10 points.10
LimassolZadar
Score7080
Price level global61.448.5
Daily budget€129€138
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 16 points.16
LimassolZadar
Score8569
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months82
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolZadar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
MunichMUC
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
WroclawWRO
3 h 15 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 35 m
€69-120
ZAD · 10 km
CologneCGN
3 h 50 m
€184-195
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 10 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-09, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureLimassolZadar
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m5 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolZadar
City population107,97070,779
People per km²2,405
Museums within 10 km21
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre2817
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months4 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.