VacationSelector

Limassol or Zagreb?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

LimassolZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
LimassolZagreb
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km278
Coast distance1 km117 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Zagreb leads by 9 points.9
LimassolZagreb
Score4352
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1927
Museums & heritage. Zagreb leads by 1 points.1
LimassolZagreb
Score4445
Museums within 10 km1741
Museums within 2 km of centre1040
Share of museums within 2 km %5998
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Zagreb leads by 22 points.22
LimassolZagreb
Score3961
Drinking venues within 4 km3401,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7557
Nightclubs within 4 km2063
Nature & day trips. Zagreb leads by 12 points.12
LimassolZagreb
Score2234
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %49100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Zagreb leads by 12 points.12
LimassolZagreb
Score1628
Tourist attractions within 2 km37
Park area within 2 km32 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 46 points.46
LimassolZagreb
Score1460
Notable places within 2 km9122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 10 points.10
LimassolZagreb
Score7080
Price level global61.448.5
Daily budget€129€138
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 23 points.23
LimassolZagreb
Score8562
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm47 mm to 104 mm
Dry months80
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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
9
6
4
2
2

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). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolZagreb
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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

MeasureLimassolZagreb
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 m127 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolZagreb
City population107,970767,131
People per km²2,405
Museums within 10 km227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2842
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.