VacationSelector

Paphos or Salzburg?

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.

Salzburg
42
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.

PaphosSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
PaphosSalzburg
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km279
Coast distance1 km653 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Salzburg leads by 5 points.5
PaphosSalzburg
Score4449
Restaurants within 2 km of centre251348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2223
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 38 points.38
PaphosSalzburg
Score2260
Museums within 10 km842
Museums within 2 km of centre327
Share of museums within 2 km %3864
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Salzburg leads by 6 points.6
PaphosSalzburg
Score3036
Drinking venues within 4 km224294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7282
Nightclubs within 4 km1116
Nature & day trips. Salzburg leads by 4 points.4
PaphosSalzburg
Score2327
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %33100
Park area within 2 km27 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 6 points.6
PaphosSalzburg
Score4248
Tourist attractions within 2 km3017
Park area within 2 km27 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 27 points.27
PaphosSalzburg
Score1946
Notable places within 2 km1254
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 11 points.11
PaphosSalzburg
Score7059
Price level global61.476.9
Daily budget€129€160
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 32 points.32
PaphosSalzburg
Score8654
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm47 mm to 168 mm
Dry months80
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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
No sunshine record
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosSalzburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 5 m
€183-262
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 km
1 h 35 m
€226-261
MUC · 112 km
CologneCGN
3 h 50 m
€184-195
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 10 m
€134-141
MUC · 112 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

MeasurePaphosSalzburg
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation72 m424 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosSalzburg
City population35,961155,021
People per km²1,9872,360
Museums within 10 km438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre3650
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.