VacationSelector

Antwerp or Faro?

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

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Faro
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

AntwerpFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
AntwerpFaro
Score061
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km113
Coast distance21 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 31 points.31
AntwerpFaro
Score7544
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4222
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 47 points.47
AntwerpFaro
Score6922
Museums within 10 km419
Museums within 2 km of centre278
Share of museums within 2 km %6689
Unesco sites within 50 km90
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 38 points.38
AntwerpFaro
Score5921
Drinking venues within 4 km866143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7686
Nightclubs within 4 km738
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 23 points.23
AntwerpFaro
Score3457
Protected land share 50 km %711
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8042
Park area within 2 km53 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 10 points.10
AntwerpFaro
Score4636
Tourist attractions within 2 km1410
Park area within 2 km53 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 32 points.32
AntwerpFaro
Score5422
Notable places within 2 km8814
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 14 points.14
AntwerpFaro
Score6074
Price level global76.255.9
Daily budget€180€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 25 points.25
AntwerpFaro
Score5883
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months06
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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 85 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 36 km
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 30 m
€116-130
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureAntwerpFaro
Official languageFrench, German, DutchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m10 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpFaro
City population529,24764,560
People per km²2,542319
Museums within 10 km382
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Distinct cuisines in the centre8034
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.