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The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park
The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay

Photos: Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License.

Paphos or Singapore?

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

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Singapore for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Singapore’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, Singapore 40: Paphos leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Paphos 45, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Paphos and Singapore are level on 62.
Nightlife. Paphos 38, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Paphos 70, Singapore 45: Paphos leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Paphos 64, Singapore 25: Paphos leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Paphos 68, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Paphos 40, Singapore 92: Singapore leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Paphos 25, Singapore 76: Singapore leads by 51 points.
Affordability. Paphos 52, Singapore 25: Paphos leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Paphos 22, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Paphos 42, Singapore 40: Paphos leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Paphos and Singapore.

Your match

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

Paphos
50match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Singapore
Best match
57match

Wins on getting around and shopping 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

Singapore in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
12 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). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePaphosSingapore
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation72 m21 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosSingapore
City population35,9615,866,139
People per km²1,9878,158
Museums within 10 km440
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months12 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.