VacationSelector

Naples or Paphos?

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

Your match

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on year-round weather and 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.

NaplesPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 3 points.3
NaplesPaphos
Score7679
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km2927
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Naples leads by 2 points.2
NaplesPaphos
Score4644
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,244251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km722
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 56 points.56
NaplesPaphos
Score7822
Museums within 10 km848
Museums within 2 km of centre683
Share of museums within 2 km %8138
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Naples leads by 36 points.36
NaplesPaphos
Score6630
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6972
Nightclubs within 4 km4011
Nature & day trips. Naples leads by 14 points.14
NaplesPaphos
Score3723
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5633
Park area within 2 km41 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 1 points.1
NaplesPaphos
Score4142
Tourist attractions within 2 km1130
Park area within 2 km41 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 59 points.59
NaplesPaphos
Score7819
Notable places within 2 km35112
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 2 points.2
NaplesPaphos
Score6870
Price level global64.961.4
Daily budget€155€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 13 points.13
NaplesPaphos
Score7386
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months38
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
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNaplesPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 5 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
1 h 45 m
€107-164
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 30 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 40 m
€81-107
NAP · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 8 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
1 h 55 m
€80-128
NAP · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€110-159
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 2026-09 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

MeasureNaplesPaphos
Official languageItalianTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m72 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesPaphos
City population913,46235,961
People per km²7,6761,987
Museums within 10 km654
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre3136
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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. 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.