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The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
AtlantaThe Georgia State Capitol
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Atlanta or Paphos?

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 Atlanta for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Paphos for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Paphos’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. Atlanta 10, Paphos 76: Paphos leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, Paphos 45: Atlanta leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta 55, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, Paphos 38: Atlanta leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta 60, Paphos 70: Paphos leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, Paphos 64: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, Paphos 68: Atlanta leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, Paphos 40: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, Paphos 25: Atlanta leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, Paphos 52: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, Paphos 22: Atlanta leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, Paphos 42: Paphos leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Paphos.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Atlanta
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Paphos
50match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Atlanta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
120 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
27 °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

Atlanta 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.

Paphos 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaPaphos
Official language-Turkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m72 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaPaphos
City population498,71535,961
People per km²1,4331,987
Museums within 10 km274
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.