VacationSelector

London or Paphos?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

LondonPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
LondonPaphos
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km4727
Coast distance43 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. London leads by 44 points.44
LondonPaphos
Score8844
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4022
Museums & heritage. London leads by 50 points.50
LondonPaphos
Score7222
Museums within 10 km1488
Museums within 2 km of centre493
Share of museums within 2 km %3338
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. London leads by 65 points.65
LondonPaphos
Score9530
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4672
Nightclubs within 4 km31211
Nature & day trips. London leads by 17 points.17
LondonPaphos
Score4023
Protected land share 50 km %162
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9733
Park area within 2 km84 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 33 points.33
LondonPaphos
Score7542
Tourist attractions within 2 km8530
Park area within 2 km84 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. London leads by 70 points.70
LondonPaphos
Score8919
Notable places within 2 km64912
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 16 points.16
LondonPaphos
Score5470
Price level global84.961.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 23 points.23
LondonPaphos
Score6386
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months18
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonPaphos
ManchesterMAN
55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
LTN · 44 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
3 h 30 m
€258-349
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ThessalonikiSKG
3 h 10 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
ChaniaCHQ
3 h 45 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 5 m
€144-189
LGW · 40 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
AlmatyALA
7 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 23 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLondonPaphos
Official languageEnglishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m72 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonPaphos
City population8,799,72835,961
People per km²5,5981,987
Museums within 10 km2154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre11636
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.