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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Arequipa or Porto?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Arequipa for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Arequipa’s own page.

Choose Porto for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Arequipa 8, Porto 40: Porto leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Porto 70: Porto leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Porto 68: Porto leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Porto 65: Porto leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Porto 64: Arequipa leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Porto 79: Porto leads by 49 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Porto 52: Porto leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Porto 66: Porto leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Porto 52: Porto leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Porto 62: Arequipa leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Porto 52: Porto leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa and Porto are level on 34.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Porto.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Arequipa
46match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaPorto
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaPortuguese
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation2,335 m104 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaPorto
City population1,008,290273,476
People per km²1,5516,606
Museums within 10 km342
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.