VacationSelector

Paphos or Rovaniemi?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
23
match

Wins on sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PaphosRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
PaphosRovaniemi
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2713
Coast distance1 km99 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Paphos leads by 23 points.23
PaphosRovaniemi
Score4421
Restaurants within 2 km of centre25180
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2214
Museums & heritage. Paphos leads by 2 points.2
PaphosRovaniemi
Score2220
Museums within 10 km88
Museums within 2 km of centre37
Share of museums within 2 km %3888
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Paphos leads by 26 points.26
PaphosRovaniemi
Score304
Drinking venues within 4 km22452
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre16142
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7281
Nightclubs within 4 km113
Nature & day trips. Paphos leads by 7 points.7
PaphosRovaniemi
Score2316
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %33100
Park area within 2 km27 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 21 points.21
PaphosRovaniemi
Score4221
Tourist attractions within 2 km302
Park area within 2 km27 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Rovaniemi leads by 6 points.6
PaphosRovaniemi
Score1925
Notable places within 2 km1217
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 14 points.14
PaphosRovaniemi
Score7056
Price level global61.481.6
Daily budget€129€184
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 43 points.43
PaphosRovaniemi
Score8643
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months85
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
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rovaniemi
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosRovaniemi
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 5 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BristolBRS
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 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

MeasurePaphosRovaniemi
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation72 m88 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosRovaniemi
City population35,96165,329
People per km²1,9879
Museums within 10 km46
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3616
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.