VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Paphos?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

CopenhagenPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 25 points.25
CopenhagenPaphos
Score5479
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km1727
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 29 points.29
CopenhagenPaphos
Score7344
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3722
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 53 points.53
CopenhagenPaphos
Score7522
Museums within 10 km838
Museums within 2 km of centre513
Share of museums within 2 km %6138
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 37 points.37
CopenhagenPaphos
Score6730
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5872
Nightclubs within 4 km6411
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 27 points.27
CopenhagenPaphos
Score5023
Protected land share 50 km %52
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3933
Park area within 2 km138 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 29 points.29
CopenhagenPaphos
Score7142
Tourist attractions within 2 km5430
Park area within 2 km138 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 55 points.55
CopenhagenPaphos
Score7419
Notable places within 2 km27312
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 18 points.18
CopenhagenPaphos
Score5270
Price level global87.861.4
Daily budget€214€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 31 points.31
CopenhagenPaphos
Score5586
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months38
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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
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. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€94-142
CPH · 8 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 25 m
€58-87
CPH · 8 km
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
€159-200
2 stops
CPH · 8 km
1 h 40 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCopenhagenPaphos
Official languageDanishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m72 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenPaphos
City population667,09935,961
People per km²7,3391,987
Museums within 10 km724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre8236
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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). 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. 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.