VacationSelector

Izmir or Paphos?

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

Your match

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

IzmirPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 24 points.24
IzmirPaphos
Score5579
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km427
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 5 points.5
IzmirPaphos
Score4944
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1222
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 21 points.21
IzmirPaphos
Score4322
Museums within 10 km478
Museums within 2 km of centre273
Share of museums within 2 km %5738
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 32 points.32
IzmirPaphos
Score6230
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6872
Nightclubs within 4 km7011
Nature & day trips. Izmir leads by 6 points.6
IzmirPaphos
Score2923
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8433
Park area within 2 km62 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 7 points.7
IzmirPaphos
Score3542
Tourist attractions within 2 km630
Park area within 2 km62 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 21 points.21
IzmirPaphos
Score4019
Notable places within 2 km3912
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 19 points.19
IzmirPaphos
Score8970
Price level global35.261.4
Daily budget€100€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 14 points.14
IzmirPaphos
Score7286
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months58
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirPaphos
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 50 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 15 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
3 h 35 m
€265-355
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 0 m
€250-300
1 stop
BJV · 137 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 35 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
5 h 10 m
€377-465
2 stops
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 2026-08 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

MeasureIzmirPaphos
Official languageTurkishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m72 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirPaphos
City population4,493,24235,961
People per km²4,7601,987
Museums within 10 km294
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2036
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.