VacationSelector

Lisbon or Paphos?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

LisbonPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 22 points.22
LisbonPaphos
Score5779
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km2427
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 36 points.36
LisbonPaphos
Score8044
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,496251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3122
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 48 points.48
LisbonPaphos
Score7022
Museums within 10 km1248
Museums within 2 km of centre543
Share of museums within 2 km %4438
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 35 points.35
LisbonPaphos
Score6530
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7872
Nightclubs within 4 km6511
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 33 points.33
LisbonPaphos
Score5623
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5433
Park area within 2 km77 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 27 points.27
LisbonPaphos
Score6942
Tourist attractions within 2 km8230
Park area within 2 km77 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 47 points.47
LisbonPaphos
Score6619
Notable places within 2 km16912
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonPaphos
Score7470
Price level global55.961.4
Daily budget€109€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 8 points.8
LisbonPaphos
Score7886
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
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
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 40 m
€129-223
LIS · 7 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
BirminghamBHX
2 h 35 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 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

MeasureLisbonPaphos
Official languagePortugueseTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m72 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonPaphos
City population545,79635,961
People per km²5,4531,987
Museums within 10 km784
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre10636
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.