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The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Paphos or Puerto Princesa?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • families

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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, Puerto Princesa 58: Paphos leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Paphos 45, Puerto Princesa 38: Paphos leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Paphos 62, Puerto Princesa 22: Paphos leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Paphos 38, Puerto Princesa 26: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Paphos 70, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Paphos 64, Puerto Princesa 12: Paphos leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Paphos 68, Puerto Princesa 45: Paphos leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Paphos 40, Puerto Princesa 30: Paphos leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Paphos 25, Puerto Princesa 20: Paphos leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Paphos 52, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Paphos 22, Puerto Princesa 10: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Paphos 42, Puerto Princesa 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 Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Paphos
Best match
50match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors 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

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 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.

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePaphosPuerto Princesa
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation72 m98 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosPuerto Princesa
City population35,961316,384
People per km²1,987133
Museums within 10 km41
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.

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.