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Paphos or Washington DC?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Washington DC
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

PaphosWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 61 points.61
PaphosWashington DC
Score7918
Swim season months63
Beaches 10 km271
Coast distance1 km34 km
Water distance1 km34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 33 points.33
PaphosWashington DC
Score4477
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2511,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2236
Museums & heritage. Washington DC leads by 33 points.33
PaphosWashington DC
Score2255
Museums within 10 km883
Museums within 2 km of centre355
Share of museums within 2 km %3866
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Washington DC leads by 31 points.31
PaphosWashington DC
Score3061
Drinking venues within 4 km2241,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7258
Nightclubs within 4 km1154
Nature & day trips. Washington DC leads by 19 points.19
PaphosWashington DC
Score2342
Protected land share 50 km %210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %3394
Park area within 2 km27 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 4 points.4
PaphosWashington DC
Score4238
Tourist attractions within 2 km307
Park area within 2 km27 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 57 points.57
PaphosWashington DC
Score1976
Notable places within 2 km12305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 27 points.27
PaphosWashington DC
Score7043
Price level global61.4100
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 24 points.24
PaphosWashington DC
Score8662
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm65 mm to 108 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
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosWashington DC
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
EdinburghEDI
4 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
DublinDUB
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
7 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasurePaphosWashington DC
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation72 m72 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosWashington DC
City population35,961689,545
People per km²1,9873,896
Museums within 10 km499
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3682
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months3 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.