VacationSelector

Paphos or The Hague?

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

Your match

Paphos
46
match

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

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PaphosThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 19 points.19
PaphosThe Hague
Score7960
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2734
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 26 points.26
PaphosThe Hague
Score4470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre251798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2243
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 40 points.40
PaphosThe Hague
Score2262
Museums within 10 km846
Museums within 2 km of centre326
Share of museums within 2 km %3857
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 16 points.16
PaphosThe Hague
Score3046
Drinking venues within 4 km224511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7256
Nightclubs within 4 km1119
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 31 points.31
PaphosThe Hague
Score2354
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3356
Park area within 2 km27 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 14 points.14
PaphosThe Hague
Score4256
Tourist attractions within 2 km3010
Park area within 2 km27 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 35 points.35
PaphosThe Hague
Score1954
Notable places within 2 km1286
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 12 points.12
PaphosThe Hague
Score7058
Price level global61.479.2
Daily budget€129€181
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 32 points.32
PaphosThe Hague
Score8654
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm42 mm to 85 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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
No sunshine record
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosThe Hague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 10 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 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

MeasurePaphosThe Hague
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation72 m1 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosThe Hague
City population35,961548,320
People per km²1,9875,589
Museums within 10 km454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre3677
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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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.