VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Paphos?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

Hong KongPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongPaphos
Score8779
Swim season months86
Beaches 10 km6527
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 44 points.44
Hong KongPaphos
Score8844
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Hong Kong leads by 14 points.14
Hong KongPaphos
Score3622
Museums within 10 km508
Museums within 2 km of centre173
Share of museums within 2 km %3438
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 41 points.41
Hong KongPaphos
Score7130
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5972
Nightclubs within 4 km3711
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 41 points.41
Hong KongPaphos
Score6423
Protected land share 50 km %82
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2933
Park area within 2 km52 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 16 points.16
Hong KongPaphos
Score5842
Tourist attractions within 2 km2730
Park area within 2 km52 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 50 points.50
Hong KongPaphos
Score6919
Notable places within 2 km20412
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 7 points.7
Hong KongPaphos
Score6370
Price level global7261.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 12 points.12
Hong KongPaphos
Score7486
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months48
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
9 h 45 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 50 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BudapestBUD
10 h 40 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
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 2026-09 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

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 centre151 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongPaphos
City population7,413,07035,961
People per km²1,987
Museums within 10 km394
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7636
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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. 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.