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Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Clearwater 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 Clearwater for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Paphos for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Clearwater 90, Paphos 76: Clearwater leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Clearwater 38, Paphos 45: Paphos leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Clearwater 18, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Clearwater 34, Paphos 38: Paphos leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Clearwater 55, Paphos 70: Paphos leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Clearwater 58, Paphos 64: Paphos leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Clearwater 78, Paphos 68: Clearwater leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Clearwater 28, Paphos 40: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Clearwater 27, Paphos 25: Clearwater leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Clearwater 35, Paphos 52: Paphos leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Clearwater 36, Paphos 22: Clearwater leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Clearwater 40, Paphos 42: Paphos leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Clearwater and Paphos.

Your match

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

Clearwater
45match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Paphos
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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

Clearwater 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.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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. Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureClearwaterPaphos
Official language-Turkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m72 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureClearwaterPaphos
City population117,29235,961
People per km²1,1541,987
Museums within 10 km44
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months6 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.