VacationSelector

Paphos or Warsaw?

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.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

PaphosWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
PaphosWarsaw
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2726
Coast distance1 km238 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 28 points.28
PaphosWarsaw
Score4472
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2511,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2234
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 41 points.41
PaphosWarsaw
Score2263
Museums within 10 km8107
Museums within 2 km of centre360
Share of museums within 2 km %3856
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 32 points.32
PaphosWarsaw
Score3062
Drinking venues within 4 km2241,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7264
Nightclubs within 4 km11104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 32 points.32
PaphosWarsaw
Score2355
Protected land share 50 km %227
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %33100
Park area within 2 km27 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 28 points.28
PaphosWarsaw
Score4270
Tourist attractions within 2 km3042
Park area within 2 km27 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 57 points.57
PaphosWarsaw
Score1976
Notable places within 2 km12299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 9 points.9
PaphosWarsaw
Score7079
Price level global61.449
Daily budget€129€133
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 27 points.27
PaphosWarsaw
Score8659
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months86
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
No sunshine record
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
WMI · 35 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 8 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 10 m
€377-465
2 stops
LCA · 110 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasurePaphosWarsaw
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation72 m118 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosWarsaw
City population35,9611,862,402
People per km²1,9873,601
Museums within 10 km4117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3676
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. 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.