VacationSelector

Bangkok or Paphos?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BangkokPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 39 points.39
BangkokPaphos
Score4079
Swim season months126
Beaches 10 km027
Coast distance23 km1 km
Water distance23 km1 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 39 points.39
BangkokPaphos
Score8344
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 24 points.24
BangkokPaphos
Score4622
Museums within 10 km1038
Museums within 2 km of centre303
Share of museums within 2 km %2938
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 53 points.53
BangkokPaphos
Score8330
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4172
Nightclubs within 4 km7211
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 28 points.28
BangkokPaphos
Score5123
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8333
Park area within 2 km42 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 15 points.15
BangkokPaphos
Score5742
Tourist attractions within 2 km3130
Park area within 2 km42 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 29 points.29
BangkokPaphos
Score4819
Notable places within 2 km6212
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 23 points.23
BangkokPaphos
Score9370
Price level global29.761.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 30 points.30
BangkokPaphos
Score5686
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months38
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
8 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
KatowiceKTW
10 h 25 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 20 m
no fares
DMK · 21 km
5 h 10 m
€377-465
2 stops
LCA · 110 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 2026-08 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureBangkokPaphos
Official languageThaiTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m72 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokPaphos
City population5,676,64835,961
People per km²3,6191,987
Museums within 10 km594
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre9136
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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. 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.

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.