VacationSelector

Boston or Paphos?

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

Your match

Boston
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

BostonPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 19 points.19
BostonPaphos
Score6079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km6827
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 29 points.29
BostonPaphos
Score7344
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 21 points.21
BostonPaphos
Score4322
Museums within 10 km798
Museums within 2 km of centre273
Share of museums within 2 km %3438
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Boston leads by 28 points.28
BostonPaphos
Score5830
Drinking venues within 4 km886224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5872
Nightclubs within 4 km4311
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 30 points.30
BostonPaphos
Score5323
Protected land share 50 km %122
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7733
Park area within 2 km116 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 11 points.11
BostonPaphos
Score5342
Tourist attractions within 2 km2830
Park area within 2 km116 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 39 points.39
BostonPaphos
Score5819
Notable places within 2 km11112
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 27 points.27
BostonPaphos
Score4370
Price level global10061.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 30 points.30
BostonPaphos
Score5686
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 0 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
DublinDUB
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
9 h 40 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
EdinburghEDI
6 h 30 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
7 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
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 2026-09 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

MeasureBostonPaphos
Official languageTurkish, 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
Elevation43 m72 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonPaphos
City population675,64735,961
People per km²2,9101,987
Museums within 10 km514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7436
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.