VacationSelector

Ljubljana or Paphos?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

LjubljanaPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
LjubljanaPaphos
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km1027
Coast distance72 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Ljubljana leads by 11 points.11
LjubljanaPaphos
Score5544
Restaurants within 2 km of centre292251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4022
Museums & heritage. Ljubljana leads by 33 points.33
LjubljanaPaphos
Score5522
Museums within 10 km268
Museums within 2 km of centre233
Share of museums within 2 km %8838
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Ljubljana leads by 15 points.15
LjubljanaPaphos
Score4530
Drinking venues within 4 km458224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6272
Nightclubs within 4 km2411
Nature & day trips. Ljubljana leads by 17 points.17
LjubljanaPaphos
Score4023
Protected land share 50 km %132
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10033
Park area within 2 km75 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 4 points.4
LjubljanaPaphos
Score3842
Tourist attractions within 2 km1230
Park area within 2 km75 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Ljubljana leads by 39 points.39
LjubljanaPaphos
Score5819
Notable places within 2 km10912
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 2 points.2
LjubljanaPaphos
Score7270
Price level global59.661.4
Daily budget€131€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 30 points.30
LjubljanaPaphos
Score5686
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months08
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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Ljubljana
No coastline within reach
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
2
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLjubljanaPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 35 m
€189-245
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
3 h 10 m
€123-135
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

MeasureLjubljanaPaphos
Official languageSloveneTurkish, 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
Elevation309 m72 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaPaphos
City population284,29335,961
People per km²1,7361,987
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre6336
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. 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. 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.