VacationSelector

Paphos or Tokyo?

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

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

PaphosTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 58 points.58
PaphosTokyo
Score7921
Swim season months64
Beaches 10 km271
Coast distance1 km5 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 46 points.46
PaphosTokyo
Score4490
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2516,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2225
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 44 points.44
PaphosTokyo
Score2266
Museums within 10 km8302
Museums within 2 km of centre352
Share of museums within 2 km %3817
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 65 points.65
PaphosTokyo
Score3095
Drinking venues within 4 km2246,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1613,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7244
Nightclubs within 4 km1158
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 35 points.35
PaphosTokyo
Score2358
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3385
Park area within 2 km27 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 29 points.29
PaphosTokyo
Score4271
Tourist attractions within 2 km3040
Park area within 2 km27 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km09
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 41 points.41
PaphosTokyo
Score1960
Notable places within 2 km12121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos and Tokyo are level on 70.
PaphosTokyo
Score7070
Price level global61.462.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 22 points.22
PaphosTokyo
Score8664
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm57 mm to 237 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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
No sunshine record
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosTokyo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
3 h 5 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 5 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
9 h 50 m
€1,071-1283
1 stop
HND · 18 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

MeasurePaphosTokyo
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation72 m6 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosTokyo
City population35,96114,264,798
People per km²1,9876,501
Museums within 10 km4191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre36125
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months4 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.