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Chicago or Paphos?

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

Your match

Chicago
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat 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.

ChicagoPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 26 points.26
ChicagoPaphos
Score5379
Swim season months16
Beaches 10 km1227
Coast distance10,000 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 37 points.37
ChicagoPaphos
Score8144
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,147251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3722
Museums & heritage. Chicago leads by 24 points.24
ChicagoPaphos
Score4622
Museums within 10 km458
Museums within 2 km of centre203
Share of museums within 2 km %4438
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 32 points.32
ChicagoPaphos
Score6230
Drinking venues within 4 km1,123224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre728161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6572
Nightclubs within 4 km5111
Nature & day trips. Chicago leads by 15 points.15
ChicagoPaphos
Score3823
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10033
Park area within 2 km118 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Chicago leads by 13 points.13
ChicagoPaphos
Score5542
Tourist attractions within 2 km1830
Park area within 2 km118 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 51 points.51
ChicagoPaphos
Score7019
Notable places within 2 km21712
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 27 points.27
ChicagoPaphos
Score4370
Price level global10061.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 29 points.29
ChicagoPaphos
Score5786
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
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

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromChicagoPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
12 h 20 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
11 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
9 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
9 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 km
EdinburghEDI
7 h 40 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
8 h 25 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
KrakowKRK
9 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 0 m
€129-174
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
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 2026-09, 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

MeasureChicagoPaphos
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m72 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoPaphos
City population2,746,38835,961
People per km²4,5291,987
Museums within 10 km434
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8736
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month6 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.