VacationSelector

Paris or Thessaloniki?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

ParisThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
ParisThessaloniki
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km24
Coast distance149 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 40 points.40
ParisThessaloniki
Score9050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,732640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3315
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 27 points.27
ParisThessaloniki
Score7649
Museums within 10 km18534
Museums within 2 km of centre6522
Share of museums within 2 km %3565
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Paris leads by 21 points.21
ParisThessaloniki
Score8867
Drinking venues within 4 km3,7961,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4557
Nightclubs within 4 km20161
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 17 points.17
ParisThessaloniki
Score4865
Protected land share 50 km %2825
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km82 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 34 points.34
ParisThessaloniki
Score7541
Tourist attractions within 2 km8916
Park area within 2 km82 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 38 points.38
ParisThessaloniki
Score9456
Notable places within 2 km86598
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 12 points.12
ParisThessaloniki
Score6274
Price level global73.755.8
Daily budget€160€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 6 points.6
ParisThessaloniki
Score6672
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months19
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
No sunshine record
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisThessaloniki
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
€177-208
CDG · 22 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
1 h 30 m
€160-210
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
2 h 10 m
€129-217
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€122-134
CDG · 22 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€152-378
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 55 m
€153-171
CDG · 22 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
€216-403
CDG · 22 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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 2026-08 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureParisThessaloniki
Official languageFrenchGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation27 m6 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisThessaloniki
City population2,103,778309,617
People per km²19,96016,042
Museums within 10 km25131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre16945
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.