VacationSelector

Atlanta or Lisbon?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

AtlantaLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
AtlantaLisbon
Score057
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km024
Coast distance373 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 21 points.21
AtlantaLisbon
Score5980
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7392,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2331
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 35 points.35
AtlantaLisbon
Score3570
Museums within 10 km41124
Museums within 2 km of centre1654
Share of museums within 2 km %3944
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 16 points.16
AtlantaLisbon
Score4965
Drinking venues within 4 km5311,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5378
Nightclubs within 4 km4665
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 25 points.25
AtlantaLisbon
Score3156
Protected land share 50 km %111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10054
Park area within 2 km113 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 37 points.37
AtlantaLisbon
Score3269
Tourist attractions within 2 km282
Park area within 2 km113 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 26 points.26
AtlantaLisbon
Score4066
Notable places within 2 km39169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 31 points.31
AtlantaLisbon
Score4374
Price level global10055.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaLisbon
Score6778
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months04
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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaLisbon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
MadridMAD
8 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 30 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 0 m
€744-1049
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€95-118
LIS · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureAtlantaLisbon
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m100 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaLisbon
City population498,715545,796
People per km²1,4335,453
Museums within 10 km2778
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre56106
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.