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Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Innsbruck 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 Innsbruck for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Paphos for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • families

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. Innsbruck 20, Paphos 76: Paphos leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Innsbruck 40, Paphos 45: Paphos leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Innsbruck 58, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Innsbruck and Paphos are level on 38.
Nature & outdoors. Innsbruck 96, Paphos 70: Innsbruck leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Innsbruck 72, Paphos 64: Innsbruck leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Innsbruck 62, Paphos 68: Paphos leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Innsbruck 78, Paphos 40: Innsbruck leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Innsbruck 38, Paphos 25: Innsbruck leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Innsbruck 38, Paphos 52: Paphos leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Innsbruck 45, Paphos 22: Innsbruck leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Innsbruck 45, Paphos 42: Innsbruck leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Innsbruck and Paphos.

Your match

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

Innsbruck
Best match
53match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors 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.

Innsbruck in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInnsbruckPaphos
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation574 m72 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckPaphos
City population132,49935,961
People per km²1,2631,987
Museums within 10 km284
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.