VacationSelector

Mexico City or Paphos?

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

Your match

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

Mexico CityPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
Mexico CityPaphos
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km427
Coast distance247 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
Mexico CityPaphos
Score6644
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1522
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 57 points.57
Mexico CityPaphos
Score7922
Museums within 10 km1388
Museums within 2 km of centre653
Share of museums within 2 km %4738
Unesco sites within 50 km62
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 48 points.48
Mexico CityPaphos
Score7830
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4372
Nightclubs within 4 km19811
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 40 points.40
Mexico CityPaphos
Score6323
Protected land share 50 km %302
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10033
Park area within 2 km32 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CityPaphos
Score5042
Tourist attractions within 2 km2330
Park area within 2 km32 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 35 points.35
Mexico CityPaphos
Score5419
Notable places within 2 km8812
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 6 points.6
Mexico CityPaphos
Score7670
Price level global54.261.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 4 points.4
Mexico CityPaphos
Score9086
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months68
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 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

MeasureMexico CityPaphos
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m72 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityPaphos
City population9,209,94435,961
People per km²6,2021,987
Museums within 10 km1084
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre5036
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.