VacationSelector

Bologna or Porto?

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

Your match

Bologna
52
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BolognaPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
BolognaPorto
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km252
Coast distance74 km4 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 10 points.10
BolognaPorto
Score5868
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8221,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2027
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 4 points.4
BolognaPorto
Score6771
Museums within 10 km58101
Museums within 2 km of centre4357
Share of museums within 2 km %7456
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Porto leads by 5 points.5
BolognaPorto
Score5358
Drinking venues within 4 km720900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7463
Nightclubs within 4 km3038
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
BolognaPorto
Score3933
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km119 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 10 points.10
BolognaPorto
Score5565
Tourist attractions within 2 km32122
Park area within 2 km119 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
BolognaPorto
Score6054
Notable places within 2 km12085
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 6 points.6
BolognaPorto
Score6874
Price level global64.955.9
Daily budget€155€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 4 points.4
BolognaPorto
Score6771
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months53
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€220-255
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
4 h 20 m
€235-292
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 15 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
CasablancaCMN
3 h 5 m
€180-238
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
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

MeasureBolognaPorto
Official languageItalianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m104 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaPorto
City population387,971231,800
People per km²2,7545,599
Museums within 10 km6642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre6270
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). 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.