VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Porto?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Porto
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

AmsterdamPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 20 points.20
AmsterdamPorto
Score4060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3352
Coast distance24 km4 km
Water distance24 km3 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 15 points.15
AmsterdamPorto
Score8368
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9571,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4427
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 9 points.9
AmsterdamPorto
Score8071
Museums within 10 km98101
Museums within 2 km of centre6957
Share of museums within 2 km %7056
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 12 points.12
AmsterdamPorto
Score7058
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7063
Nightclubs within 4 km11438
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 27 points.27
AmsterdamPorto
Score6033
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8261
Park area within 2 km49 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 3 points.3
AmsterdamPorto
Score6865
Tourist attractions within 2 km74122
Park area within 2 km49 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 14 points.14
AmsterdamPorto
Score6854
Notable places within 2 km19685
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 16 points.16
AmsterdamPorto
Score5874
Price level global79.255.9
Daily budget€181€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 14 points.14
AmsterdamPorto
Score5771
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months03
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€188-239
AMS · 12 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€106-155
AMS · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasureAmsterdamPorto
Official languageDutchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m104 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamPorto
City population921,468231,800
People per km²4,2085,599
Museums within 10 km10142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre9870
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. 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.