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The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Paphos or San Miguel de Allende?

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
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • shopping
  • wellness
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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, San Miguel de Allende 4: Paphos leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Paphos 45, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Paphos and San Miguel de Allende are level on 62.
Nightlife. Paphos and San Miguel de Allende are level on 38.
Nature & outdoors. Paphos 70, San Miguel de Allende 40: Paphos leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Paphos 64, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Paphos 68, San Miguel de Allende 32: Paphos leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Paphos 40, San Miguel de Allende 48: San Miguel de Allende leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Paphos 25, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Paphos 52, San Miguel de Allende 50: Paphos leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Paphos 22, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Paphos 42, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Paphos and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Paphos
50match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on shopping and wellness 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
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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PaphosSan Miguel de Allende

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.

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePaphosSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation72 m1,900 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosSan Miguel de Allende
City population35,96169,811
People per km²1,987-
Museums within 10 km42
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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.