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Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

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

Palm 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 Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • wellness

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

Choose Paphos for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Palm Beach 82, Paphos 76: Palm Beach leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Paphos 45: Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Paphos 38: Paphos leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Paphos 70: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach 55, Paphos 64: Paphos leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Palm Beach 62, Paphos 68: Paphos leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Paphos 40: Paphos leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Paphos 25: Palm Beach leads by 41 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Paphos 52: Paphos leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Paphos 22: Palm Beach leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach 55, Paphos 42: Palm Beach leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach and Paphos.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Palm Beach
49match

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

Paphos
50match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 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. Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm BeachPaphos
Official language-Turkish, 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 airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm BeachPaphos
City population9,24535,961
People per km²3221,987
Museums within 10 km44
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 months

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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.