VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Paphos?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Los AngelesPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 50 points.50
Los AngelesPaphos
Score2979
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km027
Swim season months06
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 22 points.22
Los AngelesPaphos
Score6644
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2222
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 27 points.27
Los AngelesPaphos
Score4922
Museums within 10 km698
Museums within 2 km of centre233
Share of museums within 2 km %3338
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 24 points.24
Los AngelesPaphos
Score5430
Drinking venues within 4 km660224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6572
Nightclubs within 4 km6411
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 39 points.39
Los AngelesPaphos
Score6223
Protected land share 50 km %262
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8033
Park area within 2 km20 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 9 points.9
Los AngelesPaphos
Score3342
Tourist attractions within 2 km1130
Park area within 2 km20 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 35 points.35
Los AngelesPaphos
Score5419
Notable places within 2 km8812
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 27 points.27
Los AngelesPaphos
Score4370
Price level global10061.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 1 points.1
Los AngelesPaphos
Score8786
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months88
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
15 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
DublinDUB
10 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
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

MeasureLos AngelesPaphos
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m72 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesPaphos
City population3,898,74735,961
People per km²2,9941,987
Museums within 10 km384
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4636
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). 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. 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.