VacationSelector

Paphos or York?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

York
41
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.

PaphosYork
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
PaphosYork
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km272
Coast distance1 km50 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. York leads by 10 points.10
PaphosYork
Score4454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre251361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2231
Museums & heritage. York leads by 24 points.24
PaphosYork
Score2246
Museums within 10 km818
Museums within 2 km of centre316
Share of museums within 2 km %3889
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. York leads by 13 points.13
PaphosYork
Score3043
Drinking venues within 4 km224450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7278
Nightclubs within 4 km1114
Nature & day trips. York leads by 10 points.10
PaphosYork
Score2333
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %3395
Park area within 2 km27 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 1 points.1
PaphosYork
Score4243
Tourist attractions within 2 km3013
Park area within 2 km27 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. York leads by 20 points.20
PaphosYork
Score1939
Notable places within 2 km1237
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 16 points.16
PaphosYork
Score7054
Price level global61.484.9
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 30 points.30
PaphosYork
Score8656
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm39 mm to 66 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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
No sunshine record
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosYork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€110-159
PFO · 8 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ChaniaCHQ
1 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
€129-174
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 8 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BristolBRS
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
NCL · 126 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasurePaphosYork
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation72 m25 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosYork
City population35,961208,400
People per km²1,987766
Museums within 10 km424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3654
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.