VacationSelector

Beijing or Lisbon?

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

Your match

Beijing
53
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BeijingLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
BeijingLisbon
Score057
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km024
Coast distance145 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 7 points.7
BeijingLisbon
Score6370
Museums within 10 km95124
Museums within 2 km of centre1554
Share of museums within 2 km %1644
Unesco sites within 50 km63
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 21 points.21
BeijingLisbon
Score3556
Protected land share 50 km %311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10054
Park area within 2 km143 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 8 points.8
BeijingLisbon
Score7769
Tourist attractions within 2 km4182
Park area within 2 km143 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km121
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 16 points.16
BeijingLisbon
Score5066
Notable places within 2 km69169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 5 points.5
BeijingLisbon
Score7974
Price level global4955.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
BeijingLisbon
Score6678
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months84
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Beijing
No coastline within reach
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingLisbon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
MadridMAD
11 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
21 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
10 h 0 m
€744-1049
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 45 m
€180-197
PKX · 45 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 5 m
€1,020-1172
2 stops
PEK · 25 km
7 h 25 m
€480-569
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
DohaDOH
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 km
7 h 30 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBeijingLisbon
Official languagePutonghuaPortuguese
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m100 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingLisbon
City population21,893,095545,796
People per km²1,3345,453
Museums within 10 km8378
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Distinct cuisines in the centre29106
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.