VacationSelector

Paphos or Strasbourg?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Paphos
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips 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.

PaphosStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
PaphosStrasbourg
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km279
Coast distance1 km398 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 23 points.23
PaphosStrasbourg
Score4467
Restaurants within 2 km of centre251780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2236
Museums & heritage. Strasbourg leads by 19 points.19
PaphosStrasbourg
Score2241
Museums within 10 km823
Museums within 2 km of centre314
Share of museums within 2 km %3861
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Strasbourg leads by 6 points.6
PaphosStrasbourg
Score3036
Drinking venues within 4 km224305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7287
Nightclubs within 4 km1117
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 31 points.31
PaphosStrasbourg
Score2354
Protected land share 50 km %237
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %33100
Park area within 2 km27 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 4 points.4
PaphosStrasbourg
Score4238
Tourist attractions within 2 km309
Park area within 2 km27 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 39 points.39
PaphosStrasbourg
Score1958
Notable places within 2 km12109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 8 points.8
PaphosStrasbourg
Score7062
Price level global61.473.7
Daily budget€129€160
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 23 points.23
PaphosStrasbourg
Score8663
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm34 mm to 77 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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
No sunshine record
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosStrasbourg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BSL · 110 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
2 h 20 m
€227-242
1 stop
STR · 109 km
SofiaSOF
2 h 5 m
€186-300
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
ToulouseTLS
4 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
BordeauxBOD
4 h 15 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
BristolBRS
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ZagrebZAG
2 h 50 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
STR · 109 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

MeasurePaphosStrasbourg
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation72 m132 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosStrasbourg
City population35,961293,771
People per km²1,9873,752
Museums within 10 km421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3687
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.