VacationSelector

Budapest or Paphos?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
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.

BudapestPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
BudapestPaphos
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km627
Coast distance10,000 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 33 points.33
BudapestPaphos
Score7744
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3522
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 42 points.42
BudapestPaphos
Score6422
Museums within 10 km1448
Museums within 2 km of centre643
Share of museums within 2 km %4438
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 42 points.42
BudapestPaphos
Score7230
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6672
Nightclubs within 4 km9711
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 17 points.17
BudapestPaphos
Score4023
Protected land share 50 km %82
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10033
Park area within 2 km111 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 29 points.29
BudapestPaphos
Score7142
Tourist attractions within 2 km7530
Park area within 2 km111 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 50 points.50
BudapestPaphos
Score6919
Notable places within 2 km20612
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 10 points.10
BudapestPaphos
Score8070
Price level global4861.4
Daily budget€104€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 22 points.22
BudapestPaphos
Score6486
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months58
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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
2 h 0 m
€97-179
BUD · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestPaphos
Official languageHungarianTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyForint (HUF)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
Elevation117 m72 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestPaphos
City population1,685,20935,961
People per km²3,2091,987
Museums within 10 km814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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). 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.