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The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park
St. Petersburg, Florida

Photos: Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Paphos or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Paphos 45, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Paphos 62, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Paphos leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Paphos 38, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Paphos 70, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Paphos 64, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: Paphos leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Paphos 68, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Paphos 40, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Paphos leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Paphos 25, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Paphos 52, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Paphos leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Paphos 22, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Paphos 42, St. Petersburg, Florida 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 St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Paphos
50match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

St. Petersburg, Florida
50match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePaphosSt. Petersburg, Florida
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-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation72 m134 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population35,961258,308
People per km²1,987725
Museums within 10 km413
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months8 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.