VacationSelector

Paphos or Siena?

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.

Siena
39
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.

PaphosSiena
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
PaphosSiena
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km270
Coast distance1 km64 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Paphos leads by 12 points.12
PaphosSiena
Score4432
Restaurants within 2 km of centre251242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2211
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 49 points.49
PaphosSiena
Score2271
Museums within 10 km855
Museums within 2 km of centre351
Share of museums within 2 km %3893
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Paphos leads by 13 points.13
PaphosSiena
Score3017
Drinking venues within 4 km224142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7284
Nightclubs within 4 km111
Nature & day trips. Paphos leads by 4 points.4
PaphosSiena
Score2319
Protected land share 50 km %23
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %33100
Park area within 2 km27 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 11 points.11
PaphosSiena
Score4231
Tourist attractions within 2 km3013
Park area within 2 km27 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 31 points.31
PaphosSiena
Score1950
Notable places within 2 km1269
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 2 points.2
PaphosSiena
Score7068
Price level global61.464.9
Daily budget€129€155
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 22 points.22
PaphosSiena
Score8664
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm49 mm to 136 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
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
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). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosSiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€110-159
PFO · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€104-116
PSA · 86 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 25 m
€185-255
1 stop
FLR · 55 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

MeasurePaphosSiena
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation72 m322 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosSiena
City population35,96152,812
People per km²1,987446
Museums within 10 km429
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre3625
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.