VacationSelector

Miami or Paphos?

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

Your match

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

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

Paphos
46
match

Wins on value for money 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.

MiamiPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 16 points.16
MiamiPaphos
Score9579
Swim season months126
Beaches 10 km2027
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 21 points.21
MiamiPaphos
Score6544
Restaurants within 2 km of centre898251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2922
Museums & heritage. Miami leads by 1 points.1
MiamiPaphos
Score2322
Museums within 10 km288
Museums within 2 km of centre63
Share of museums within 2 km %2138
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Miami leads by 20 points.20
MiamiPaphos
Score5030
Drinking venues within 4 km538224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre287161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5372
Nightclubs within 4 km6311
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 49 points.49
MiamiPaphos
Score7223
Protected land share 50 km %162
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4833
Park area within 2 km50 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Miami leads by 2 points.2
MiamiPaphos
Score4442
Tourist attractions within 2 km1430
Park area within 2 km50 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Miami leads by 23 points.23
MiamiPaphos
Score4219
Notable places within 2 km4512
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 27 points.27
MiamiPaphos
Score4370
Price level global10061.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 12 points.12
MiamiPaphos
Score7486
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
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. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
10 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
DublinDUB
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 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

MeasureMiamiPaphos
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m72 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiPaphos
City population442,24135,961
People per km²3,0461,987
Museums within 10 km174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3936
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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.