VacationSelector

Bucharest or Paphos?

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

Your match

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

BucharestPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
BucharestPaphos
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km327
Coast distance198 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 23 points.23
BucharestPaphos
Score6744
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4122
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 27 points.27
BucharestPaphos
Score4922
Museums within 10 km738
Museums within 2 km of centre403
Share of museums within 2 km %5538
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 32 points.32
BucharestPaphos
Score6230
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5372
Nightclubs within 4 km8011
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 13 points.13
BucharestPaphos
Score3623
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10033
Park area within 2 km133 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 26 points.26
BucharestPaphos
Score6842
Tourist attractions within 2 km4530
Park area within 2 km133 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 42 points.42
BucharestPaphos
Score6119
Notable places within 2 km13012
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 15 points.15
BucharestPaphos
Score8570
Price level global40.961.4
Daily budget€99€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 23 points.23
BucharestPaphos
Score6386
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months18
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
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 20 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 15 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
1 h 35 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
2 h 55 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

MeasureBucharestPaphos
Official languageRomanianTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m72 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestPaphos
City population1,716,96135,961
People per km²7,5971,987
Museums within 10 km414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6836
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). 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. 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.