VacationSelector

Paphos or Portland?

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

Your match

Paphos
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

PaphosPortland
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
PaphosPortland
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2727
Coast distance1 km69 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 30 points.30
PaphosPortland
Score4474
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2511,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2244
Museums & heritage. Portland leads by 13 points.13
PaphosPortland
Score2235
Museums within 10 km823
Museums within 2 km of centre315
Share of museums within 2 km %3865
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Portland leads by 28 points.28
PaphosPortland
Score3058
Drinking venues within 4 km224942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7255
Nightclubs within 4 km1132
Nature & day trips. Portland leads by 12 points.12
PaphosPortland
Score2335
Protected land share 50 km %213
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %33100
Park area within 2 km27 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 8 points.8
PaphosPortland
Score4234
Tourist attractions within 2 km308
Park area within 2 km27 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Portland leads by 16 points.16
PaphosPortland
Score1935
Notable places within 2 km1229
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 27 points.27
PaphosPortland
Score7043
Price level global61.4100
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 21 points.21
PaphosPortland
Score8665
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months83
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
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Portland
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosPortland
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 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

MeasurePaphosPortland
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation72 m152 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosPortland
City population35,961652,503
People per km²1,9871,736
Museums within 10 km417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3682
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.