VacationSelector

Budapest or Faro?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Faro
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BudapestFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
BudapestFaro
Score061
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km613
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 33 points.33
BudapestFaro
Score7744
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3522
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 42 points.42
BudapestFaro
Score6422
Museums within 10 km1449
Museums within 2 km of centre648
Share of museums within 2 km %4489
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 51 points.51
BudapestFaro
Score7221
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6686
Nightclubs within 4 km978
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 17 points.17
BudapestFaro
Score4057
Protected land share 50 km %811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km111 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 35 points.35
BudapestFaro
Score7136
Tourist attractions within 2 km7510
Park area within 2 km111 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 47 points.47
BudapestFaro
Score6922
Notable places within 2 km20614
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 6 points.6
BudapestFaro
Score8074
Price level global4855.9
Daily budget€104€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 19 points.19
BudapestFaro
Score6483
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months56
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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
2 h 55 m
€121-132
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
2 h 40 m
€85-128
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureBudapestFaro
Official languageHungarianPortuguese
CurrencyForint (HUF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m10 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestFaro
City population1,685,20964,560
People per km²3,209319
Museums within 10 km812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8634
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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). 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. 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.