VacationSelector

Paphos or Porto?

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.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

PaphosPorto
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 19 points.19
PaphosPorto
Score7960
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2752
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 24 points.24
PaphosPorto
Score4468
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2511,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2227
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 49 points.49
PaphosPorto
Score2271
Museums within 10 km8101
Museums within 2 km of centre357
Share of museums within 2 km %3856
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Porto leads by 28 points.28
PaphosPorto
Score3058
Drinking venues within 4 km224900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7263
Nightclubs within 4 km1138
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 10 points.10
PaphosPorto
Score2333
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3361
Park area within 2 km27 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 23 points.23
PaphosPorto
Score4265
Tourist attractions within 2 km30122
Park area within 2 km27 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 35 points.35
PaphosPorto
Score1954
Notable places within 2 km1285
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 4 points.4
PaphosPorto
Score7074
Price level global61.455.9
Daily budget€129€109
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 15 points.15
PaphosPorto
Score8671
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm22 mm to 181 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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
No sunshine record
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosPorto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BristolBRS
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 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

MeasurePaphosPorto
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation72 m104 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosPorto
City population35,961231,800
People per km²1,9875,599
Museums within 10 km442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre3670
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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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.