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The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong for

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • food and drink

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

Choose Paphos for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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. Hong Kong 50, Paphos 76: Paphos leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Hong Kong 90, Paphos 45: Hong Kong leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Hong Kong 60, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Hong Kong 68, Paphos 38: Hong Kong leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hong Kong 80, Paphos 70: Hong Kong leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Hong Kong 68, Paphos 64: Hong Kong leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Hong Kong 75, Paphos 68: Hong Kong leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Hong Kong 97, Paphos 40: Hong Kong leads by 57 points.
Shopping & style. Hong Kong 88, Paphos 25: Hong Kong leads by 63 points.
Affordability. Hong Kong 27, Paphos 52: Paphos leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hong Kong 55, Paphos 22: Hong Kong leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hong Kong and Paphos are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hong Kong and Paphos.

Your match

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

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on shopping and getting around with your weighting.

Paphos
50match

Wins on beaches 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.

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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

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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHong KongPaphos
Official languageStandard ChineseTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m72 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongPaphos
City population7,413,07035,961
People per km²-1,987
Museums within 10 km394
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months6 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.