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Paphos or West Palm Beach?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Paphos
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

PaphosWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.9
PaphosWest Palm Beach
Score7988
Swim season months612
Beaches 10 km2710
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Paphos leads by 7 points.7
PaphosWest Palm Beach
Score4437
Restaurants within 2 km of centre251262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2214
Museums & heritage. Paphos leads by 5 points.5
PaphosWest Palm Beach
Score2217
Museums within 10 km85
Museums within 2 km of centre33
Share of museums within 2 km %3860
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Paphos leads by 10 points.10
PaphosWest Palm Beach
Score3020
Drinking venues within 4 km224132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre16190
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7268
Nightclubs within 4 km1110
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 46 points.46
PaphosWest Palm Beach
Score2369
Protected land share 50 km %215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3345
Park area within 2 km27 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 21 points.21
PaphosWest Palm Beach
Score4221
Tourist attractions within 2 km303
Park area within 2 km27 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Paphos leads by 7 points.7
PaphosWest Palm Beach
Score1912
Notable places within 2 km128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 27 points.27
PaphosWest Palm Beach
Score7043
Price level global61.4100
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 11 points.11
PaphosWest Palm Beach
Score8675
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DublinDUB
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasurePaphosWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosWest Palm Beach
City population35,961117,415
People per km²1,987786
Museums within 10 km44
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3618
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months12 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.