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The Texas State Capitol under a blue sky, Austin
AustinThe Texas State Capitol under a blue sky
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Austin by LoneStarMike, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Austin 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 Austin for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Paphos for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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. Austin 30, Paphos 76: Paphos leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Austin 66, Paphos 45: Austin leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Austin 40, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Austin 65, Paphos 38: Austin leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Austin 57, Paphos 70: Paphos leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Austin 58, Paphos 64: Paphos leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Austin 55, Paphos 68: Paphos leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Austin 30, Paphos 40: Paphos leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Austin 45, Paphos 25: Austin leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Austin 33, Paphos 52: Paphos leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Austin 77, Paphos 22: Austin leads by 55 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Austin 40, Paphos 42: Paphos leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Austin and Paphos.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Austin
50match

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

Paphos
50match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Austin in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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

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. Austin: 1991-2020 normals, Camp Mabry/Austin City Asos (3.7 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAustinPaphos
Official language-Turkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation149 m72 m
Main airportAustin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)13 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAustinPaphos
City population961,85535,961
People per km²1,2171,987
Museums within 10 km214
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.