VacationSelector

New York or Paphos?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

New YorkPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 15 points.15
New YorkPaphos
Score6479
Swim season months36
Beaches 10 km1727
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 51 points.51
New YorkPaphos
Score9544
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,032251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3822
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 38 points.38
New YorkPaphos
Score6022
Museums within 10 km1198
Museums within 2 km of centre313
Share of museums within 2 km %2638
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. New York leads by 59 points.59
New YorkPaphos
Score8930
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4872
Nightclubs within 4 km19211
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 16 points.16
New YorkPaphos
Score3923
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6933
Park area within 2 km134 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 30 points.30
New YorkPaphos
Score7242
Tourist attractions within 2 km3730
Park area within 2 km134 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. New York leads by 55 points.55
New YorkPaphos
Score7419
Notable places within 2 km26812
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 27 points.27
New YorkPaphos
Score4370
Price level global10061.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 28 points.28
New YorkPaphos
Score5886
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
New York
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

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
10 h 0 m
€606-724
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
DublinDUB
6 h 40 m
€391-493
JFK · 21 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BudapestBUD
9 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 140 km
2 h 45 m
€143-223
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 2026-08 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

MeasureNew YorkPaphos
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
Elevation25 m72 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkPaphos
City population8,804,19035,961
People per km²7,2561,987
Museums within 10 km1574
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre13236
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.