VacationSelector

Bath or Paphos?

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

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Paphos
✓ Best match
46
match

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

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Scoreboard

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

BathPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 71 points.71
BathPaphos
Score879
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance29 km1 km
Water distance29 km1 km
Places to eat. Bath leads by 2 points.2
BathPaphos
Score4644
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 25 points.25
BathPaphos
Score4722
Museums within 10 km208
Museums within 2 km of centre143
Share of museums within 2 km %7038
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Bath leads by 6 points.6
BathPaphos
Score3630
Drinking venues within 4 km320224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7572
Nightclubs within 4 km1111
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 21 points.21
BathPaphos
Score4423
Protected land share 50 km %282
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9233
Park area within 2 km45 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 2 points.2
BathPaphos
Score4042
Tourist attractions within 2 km1430
Park area within 2 km45 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bath leads by 13 points.13
BathPaphos
Score3219
Notable places within 2 km2512
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 16 points.16
BathPaphos
Score5470
Price level global84.961.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 31 points.31
BathPaphos
Score5586
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months08
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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathPaphos
ManchesterMAN
55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ThessalonikiSKG
3 h 25 m
€95-154
BRS · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
LTN · 148 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
3 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
DublinDUB
1 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 25 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
NewcastleNCL
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AlmatyALA
7 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 132 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBathPaphos
Official languageEnglishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m72 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathPaphos
City population94,09235,961
People per km²3,2451,987
Museums within 10 km174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3836
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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). 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. 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. 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.