VacationSelector

Paphos or Paris?

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

Your match

Paphos
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PaphosParis
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
PaphosParis
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km272
Coast distance1 km149 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 46 points.46
PaphosParis
Score4490
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2514,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2233
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 54 points.54
PaphosParis
Score2276
Museums within 10 km8185
Museums within 2 km of centre365
Share of museums within 2 km %3835
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Paris leads by 58 points.58
PaphosParis
Score3088
Drinking venues within 4 km2243,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1611,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7245
Nightclubs within 4 km11201
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 25 points.25
PaphosParis
Score2348
Protected land share 50 km %228
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %33100
Park area within 2 km27 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 33 points.33
PaphosParis
Score4275
Tourist attractions within 2 km3089
Park area within 2 km27 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 75 points.75
PaphosParis
Score1994
Notable places within 2 km12865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 8 points.8
PaphosParis
Score7062
Price level global61.473.7
Daily budget€129€160
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 20 points.20
PaphosParis
Score8666
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months81
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosParis
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 20 m
€108-163
CDG · 22 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
4 h 30 m
€216-403
CDG · 22 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
3 h 10 m
€177-208
CDG · 22 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€153-171
CDG · 22 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
CDG · 22 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 2026-09, 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

MeasurePaphosParis
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation72 m27 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosParis
City population35,9612,103,778
People per km²1,98719,960
Museums within 10 km4251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre36169
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.