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Palms on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu
HonoluluPalms on Waikiki Beach
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Honolulu 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 Honolulu for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Paphos for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • 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. Honolulu 91, Paphos 76: Honolulu leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Honolulu 70, Paphos 45: Honolulu leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Honolulu 55, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Honolulu 45, Paphos 38: Honolulu leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Honolulu 88, Paphos 70: Honolulu leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Honolulu 38, Paphos 64: Paphos leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Honolulu 80, Paphos 68: Honolulu leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Honolulu 52, Paphos 40: Honolulu leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Honolulu 60, Paphos 25: Honolulu leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Honolulu 15, Paphos 52: Paphos leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Honolulu 40, Paphos 22: Honolulu leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Honolulu 50, Paphos 42: Honolulu leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Honolulu and Paphos.

Your match

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

Honolulu
Best match
57match

Wins on shopping and food and drink with your weighting.

Paphos
50match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Honolulu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
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. Honolulu: 1991-2020 normals, Honolulu International Airport (10.1 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHonoluluPaphos
Official language-Turkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-10UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m72 m
Main airportDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureHonoluluPaphos
City population350,96435,961
People per km²1,9811,987
Museums within 10 km124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 months

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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.