VacationSelector

Ghent or Paphos?

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

Your match

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
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.

GhentPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 53 points.53
GhentPaphos
Score2679
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km827
Coast distance32 km1 km
Water distance32 km1 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
GhentPaphos
Score7044
Restaurants within 2 km of centre764251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4922
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 36 points.36
GhentPaphos
Score5822
Museums within 10 km248
Museums within 2 km of centre203
Share of museums within 2 km %8338
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 19 points.19
GhentPaphos
Score4930
Drinking venues within 4 km570224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7872
Nightclubs within 4 km2611
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 11 points.11
GhentPaphos
Score3423
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8733
Park area within 2 km84 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 8 points.8
GhentPaphos
Score5042
Tourist attractions within 2 km1930
Park area within 2 km84 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 27 points.27
GhentPaphos
Score4619
Notable places within 2 km5512
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 10 points.10
GhentPaphos
Score6070
Price level global76.261.4
Daily budget€180€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 30 points.30
GhentPaphos
Score5686
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months18
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 84 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 56 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
€118-155
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ThessalonikiSKG
2 h 50 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 45 m
€72-114
CRL · 84 km
2 h 5 m
€110-159
PFO · 8 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 0 m
€51-84
CRL · 84 km
2 h 45 m
€143-223
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

MeasureGhentPaphos
Official languageFrench, German, DutchTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation12 m72 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentPaphos
City population272,65735,961
People per km²1,7281,987
Museums within 10 km304
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre8336
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.