VacationSelector

Berlin or Paphos?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

BerlinPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
BerlinPaphos
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km1727
Coast distance142 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 26 points.26
BerlinPaphos
Score7044
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3322
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 57 points.57
BerlinPaphos
Score7922
Museums within 10 km2008
Museums within 2 km of centre813
Share of museums within 2 km %4138
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 46 points.46
BerlinPaphos
Score7630
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3472
Nightclubs within 4 km13511
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 26 points.26
BerlinPaphos
Score4923
Protected land share 50 km %202
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10033
Park area within 2 km141 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 34 points.34
BerlinPaphos
Score7642
Tourist attractions within 2 km5430
Park area within 2 km141 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 65 points.65
BerlinPaphos
Score8419
Notable places within 2 km48612
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 10 points.10
BerlinPaphos
Score6070
Price level global75.961.4
Daily budget€163€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 26 points.26
BerlinPaphos
Score6086
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
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
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 55 m
€128-224
1 stop
BER · 19 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 0 m
€208-225
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€187-215
1 stop
BER · 19 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
ThessalonikiSKG
2 h 25 m
€149-168
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
2 h 45 m
€200
BER · 19 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 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

MeasureBerlinPaphos
Official languageGermanTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m72 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinPaphos
City population3,782,20235,961
People per km²4,2441,987
Museums within 10 km1584
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8636
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. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.