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The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Orange Beach or Paphos?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Orange Beach for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange Beach’s own page.

Choose Paphos for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Paphos’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Orange Beach 86, Paphos 76: Orange Beach leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Orange Beach 40, Paphos 45: Paphos leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Orange Beach 7, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Orange Beach 30, Paphos 38: Paphos leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Orange Beach 60, Paphos 70: Paphos leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Orange Beach 50, Paphos 64: Paphos leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Orange Beach 75, Paphos 68: Orange Beach leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Orange Beach 15, Paphos 40: Paphos leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Orange Beach and Paphos are level on 25.
Affordability. Orange Beach 38, Paphos 52: Paphos leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Orange Beach 32, Paphos 22: Orange Beach leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Orange Beach 32, Paphos 42: Paphos leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Orange Beach and Paphos.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Orange Beach
41match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Paphos
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Paphos has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOrange BeachPaphos
Official language-Turkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m72 m
Main airportPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrange BeachPaphos
City population8,09535,961
People per km²1961,987
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months6 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.