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The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Paphos or Salt Lake City?

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
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: Paphos leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Paphos 45, Salt Lake City 40: Paphos leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Paphos 62, Salt Lake City 42: Paphos leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Paphos 38, Salt Lake City 30: Paphos leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Paphos 70, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Paphos 64, Salt Lake City 34: Paphos leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Paphos 68, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Paphos 40, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Paphos 25, Salt Lake City 36: Salt Lake City leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Paphos 52, Salt Lake City 40: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Paphos 22, Salt Lake City 55: Salt Lake City leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Paphos 42, Salt Lake City 38: Paphos leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Paphos and Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Paphos
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 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). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePaphosSalt Lake City
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-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation72 m1,288 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosSalt Lake City
City population35,961199,723
People per km²1,987690
Museums within 10 km412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.