VacationSelector

Paphos or Seattle?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Paphos
46
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PaphosSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 19 points.19
PaphosSeattle
Score7960
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km27100
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 31 points.31
PaphosSeattle
Score4475
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2511,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2235
Museums & heritage. Seattle leads by 14 points.14
PaphosSeattle
Score2236
Museums within 10 km828
Museums within 2 km of centre317
Share of museums within 2 km %3861
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 27 points.27
PaphosSeattle
Score3057
Drinking venues within 4 km224873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7280
Nightclubs within 4 km1134
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 17 points.17
PaphosSeattle
Score2340
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3380
Park area within 2 km27 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 4 points.4
PaphosSeattle
Score4246
Tourist attractions within 2 km3017
Park area within 2 km27 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 33 points.33
PaphosSeattle
Score1952
Notable places within 2 km1276
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 27 points.27
PaphosSeattle
Score7043
Price level global61.4100
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 25 points.25
PaphosSeattle
Score8661
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months83
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosSeattle
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DublinDUB
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 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

MeasurePaphosSeattle
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-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation72 m40 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosSeattle
City population35,961737,015
People per km²1,9871,996
Museums within 10 km427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3678
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.