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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Chengdu or Paphos?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Chengdu for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Chengdu’s own page.

Choose Paphos for

  • beaches
  • families
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Paphos’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Chengdu 5, Paphos 76: Paphos leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Paphos 45: Chengdu leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Paphos 38: Chengdu leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Paphos 70: Paphos leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Paphos 64: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Paphos 68: Paphos leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Paphos 40: Chengdu leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Paphos 25: Chengdu leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Paphos 52: Chengdu leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Paphos 22: Chengdu leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Paphos 42: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Paphos.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink and shopping with your weighting.

Paphos
50match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Paphos has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduPaphos
Official languagePutonghuaTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation500 m72 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureChengduPaphos
City population20,937,75735,961
People per km²1,4561,987
Museums within 10 km104
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.