VacationSelector

Bangkok or Porto?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Bangkok
62
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money with your weighting.

Porto
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and beaches & swimming 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.

BangkokPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 20 points.20
BangkokPorto
Score4060
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km052
Coast distance23 km4 km
Water distance23 km3 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 15 points.15
BangkokPorto
Score8368
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9571,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2627
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 25 points.25
BangkokPorto
Score4671
Museums within 10 km103101
Museums within 2 km of centre3057
Share of museums within 2 km %2956
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
BangkokPorto
Score8358
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4163
Nightclubs within 4 km7238
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 18 points.18
BangkokPorto
Score5133
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8361
Park area within 2 km42 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 8 points.8
BangkokPorto
Score5765
Tourist attractions within 2 km31122
Park area within 2 km42 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 6 points.6
BangkokPorto
Score4854
Notable places within 2 km6285
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 19 points.19
BangkokPorto
Score9374
Price level global29.755.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 15 points.15
BangkokPorto
Score5671
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months33
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 20 m
€235-292
1 stop
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

MeasureBangkokPorto
Official languageThaiPortuguese
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m104 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokPorto
City population5,676,648231,800
People per km²3,6195,599
Museums within 10 km5942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre9170
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.