VacationSelector

Calgary or Paphos?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

Paphos
✓ Best match
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.

CalgaryPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
CalgaryPaphos
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km427
Coast distance649 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 22 points.22
CalgaryPaphos
Score6644
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3622
Museums & heritage. Paphos leads by 13 points.13
CalgaryPaphos
Score922
Museums within 10 km88
Museums within 2 km of centre33
Share of museums within 2 km %3838
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 14 points.14
CalgaryPaphos
Score4430
Drinking venues within 4 km465224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7472
Nightclubs within 4 km1911
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 13 points.13
CalgaryPaphos
Score3623
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10033
Park area within 2 km142 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 1 points.1
CalgaryPaphos
Score4142
Tourist attractions within 2 km330
Park area within 2 km142 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Calgary leads by 20 points.20
CalgaryPaphos
Score3919
Notable places within 2 km3712
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 16 points.16
CalgaryPaphos
Score5470
Price level global8461.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 29 points.29
CalgaryPaphos
Score5786
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months88
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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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
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

MeasureCalgaryPaphos
Official languageFrench, EnglishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m72 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryPaphos
City population1,306,78435,961
People per km²1,5831,987
Museums within 10 km134
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6736
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). 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. 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.