VacationSelector

Paphos or Sorrento?

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 good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

PaphosSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 2 points.2
PaphosSorrento
Score7977
Swim season months65
Beaches 10 km2778
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Paphos leads by 25 points.25
PaphosSorrento
Score4419
Restaurants within 2 km of centre251249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km225
Museums & heritage. Sorrento leads by 15 points.15
PaphosSorrento
Score2237
Museums within 10 km87
Museums within 2 km of centre34
Share of museums within 2 km %3857
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Paphos leads by 8 points.8
PaphosSorrento
Score3022
Drinking venues within 4 km224179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7273
Nightclubs within 4 km112
Nature & day trips. Paphos and Sorrento are level on 23.
PaphosSorrento
Score2323
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3342
Park area within 2 km27 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 37 points.37
PaphosSorrento
Score425
Tourist attractions within 2 km302
Park area within 2 km27 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Paphos leads by 9 points.9
PaphosSorrento
Score1910
Notable places within 2 km127
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 2 points.2
PaphosSorrento
Score7068
Price level global61.464.9
Daily budget€129€155
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 13 points.13
PaphosSorrento
Score8673
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm17 mm to 159 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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
No sunshine record
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromPaphosSorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 45 m
€107-164
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€81-107
NAP · 30 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€110-159
PFO · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€80-128
NAP · 30 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

MeasurePaphosSorrento
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 m50 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosSorrento
City population35,96115,407
People per km²1,9871,541
Museums within 10 km45
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre3611
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months5 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.