VacationSelector

Paphos or Vienna?

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.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

PaphosVienna
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
PaphosVienna
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2722
Coast distance1 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 33 points.33
PaphosVienna
Score4477
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2511,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2237
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 59 points.59
PaphosVienna
Score2281
Museums within 10 km8192
Museums within 2 km of centre3110
Share of museums within 2 km %3857
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 44 points.44
PaphosVienna
Score3074
Drinking venues within 4 km2241,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1611,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7256
Nightclubs within 4 km11108
Nature & day trips. Vienna leads by 9 points.9
PaphosVienna
Score2332
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %33100
Park area within 2 km27 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 27 points.27
PaphosVienna
Score4269
Tourist attractions within 2 km3046
Park area within 2 km27 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 56 points.56
PaphosVienna
Score1975
Notable places within 2 km12287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 11 points.11
PaphosVienna
Score7059
Price level global61.476.9
Daily budget€129€160
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 25 points.25
PaphosVienna
Score8661
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months81
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
No sunshine record
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
3 h 25 m
€283-311
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€150-241
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€110-159
PFO · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€101-156
VIE · 18 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
VIE · 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

MeasurePaphosVienna
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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
Elevation72 m151 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosVienna
City population35,9612,028,289
People per km²1,9874,890
Museums within 10 km4152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre36113
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.