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The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park
The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro

Photos: Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License.

Paphos or Paris?

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 Paphos for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Paris for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Paris’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. Paphos 76, Paris 9: Paphos leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Paphos 45, Paris 96: Paris leads by 51 points.
Culture & sights. Paphos 62, Paris 97: Paris leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Paphos 38, Paris 80: Paris leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Paphos 70, Paris 52: Paphos leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Paphos 64, Paris 92: Paris leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Paphos 68, Paris 79: Paris leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Paphos 40, Paris 88: Paris leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Paphos 25, Paris 98: Paris leads by 73 points.
Affordability. Paphos 52, Paris 25: Paphos leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Paphos 22, Paris 88: Paris leads by 66 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Paphos 42, Paris 40: Paphos leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Paphos and Paris.

Your match

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

Paphos
50match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Paris
Best match
70match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Paphos in July

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

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 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. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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 centre58 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.