VacationSelector

Florence or Paphos?

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

Your match

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

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

Paphos
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

FlorencePaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
FlorencePaphos
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km027
Coast distance78 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Florence leads by 15 points.15
FlorencePaphos
Score5944
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1522
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 60 points.60
FlorencePaphos
Score8222
Museums within 10 km1328
Museums within 2 km of centre933
Share of museums within 2 km %7038
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Florence leads by 26 points.26
FlorencePaphos
Score5630
Drinking venues within 4 km818224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7372
Nightclubs within 4 km3411
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 15 points.15
FlorencePaphos
Score3823
Protected land share 50 km %92
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10033
Park area within 2 km86 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 10 points.10
FlorencePaphos
Score5242
Tourist attractions within 2 km3030
Park area within 2 km86 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 56 points.56
FlorencePaphos
Score7519
Notable places within 2 km29212
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 2 points.2
FlorencePaphos
Score6870
Price level global64.961.4
Daily budget€155€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 18 points.18
FlorencePaphos
Score6886
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months28
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
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
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorencePaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 10 m
€104-116
PSA · 70 km
2 h 5 m
€110-159
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€185-255
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
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 2026-10, 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

MeasureFlorencePaphos
Official languageItalianTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m72 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorencePaphos
City population360,93035,961
People per km²3,5281,987
Museums within 10 km1404
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre6236
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.