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The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Paphos or Victoria Falls?

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

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Paphos leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Paphos 45, Victoria Falls 24: Paphos leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Paphos 62, Victoria Falls 12: Paphos leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Paphos 38, Victoria Falls 8: Paphos leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Paphos 70, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Paphos 64, Victoria Falls 22: Paphos leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Paphos 68, Victoria Falls 38: Paphos leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Paphos 40, Victoria Falls 45: Victoria Falls leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Paphos 25, Victoria Falls 18: Paphos leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Paphos 52, Victoria Falls 32: Paphos leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Paphos 22, Victoria Falls 10: Paphos leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Paphos 42, Victoria Falls 34: Paphos leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Paphos and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Paphos
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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PaphosVictoria Falls

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). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePaphosVictoria Falls
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112999
Elevation72 m961 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosVictoria Falls
City population35,96133,060
People per km²1,987-
Museums within 10 km42
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.