VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Paphos?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Dubrovnik
44
match

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

Paphos
46
match

Wins on good for families 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.

DubrovnikPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 2 points.2
DubrovnikPaphos
Score7779
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km4327
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Paphos leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikPaphos
Score3844
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1822
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 27 points.27
DubrovnikPaphos
Score4922
Museums within 10 km188
Museums within 2 km of centre173
Share of museums within 2 km %9438
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Paphos leads by 10 points.10
DubrovnikPaphos
Score2030
Drinking venues within 4 km128224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8672
Nightclubs within 4 km1311
Nature & day trips. Paphos leads by 18 points.18
DubrovnikPaphos
Score523
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5133
Park area within 2 km6 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 21 points.21
DubrovnikPaphos
Score2142
Tourist attractions within 2 km1230
Park area within 2 km6 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 25 points.25
DubrovnikPaphos
Score4419
Notable places within 2 km4812
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 10 points.10
DubrovnikPaphos
Score8070
Price level global48.561.4
Daily budget€138€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 21 points.21
DubrovnikPaphos
Score6586
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
BristolBRS
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
1 h 30 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AlmatyALA
6 h 5 m
€370-455
3 stops
TGD · 99 km
5 h 10 m
€377-465
2 stops
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 2026-08 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

MeasureDubrovnikPaphos
Official languageCroatianTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m72 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikPaphos
City population41,56235,961
People per km²1,987
Museums within 10 km74
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre3236
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.