VacationSelector

Paphos or Zurich?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Paphos
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Zurich
44
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.

PaphosZurich
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
PaphosZurich
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2723
Coast distance1 km632 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 23 points.23
PaphosZurich
Score4467
Restaurants within 2 km of centre251974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2230
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 34 points.34
PaphosZurich
Score2256
Museums within 10 km876
Museums within 2 km of centre337
Share of museums within 2 km %3849
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 24 points.24
PaphosZurich
Score3054
Drinking venues within 4 km224676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7282
Nightclubs within 4 km1174
Nature & day trips. Zurich leads by 14 points.14
PaphosZurich
Score2337
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %33100
Park area within 2 km27 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 6 points.6
PaphosZurich
Score4236
Tourist attractions within 2 km308
Park area within 2 km27 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 40 points.40
PaphosZurich
Score1959
Notable places within 2 km12119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 35 points.35
PaphosZurich
Score7035
Price level global61.4110.5
Daily budget€129€248
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 33 points.33
PaphosZurich
Score8653
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
No sunshine record
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
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). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 35 m
€213-216
ZRH · 9 km
BerlinBER
3 h 35 m
€265-355
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 9 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€164-214
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 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

MeasurePaphosZurich
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation72 m408 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosZurich
City population35,961452,421
People per km²1,9875,147
Museums within 10 km463
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3678
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.