VacationSelector

Budapest 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, 2 points apart

Budapest
60
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Porto
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

BudapestPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
BudapestPorto
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km652
Coast distance10,000 km4 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 9 points.9
BudapestPorto
Score7768
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6991,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3527
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 7 points.7
BudapestPorto
Score6471
Museums within 10 km144101
Museums within 2 km of centre6457
Share of museums within 2 km %4456
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 14 points.14
BudapestPorto
Score7258
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6663
Nightclubs within 4 km9738
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 7 points.7
BudapestPorto
Score4033
Protected land share 50 km %87
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km111 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 6 points.6
BudapestPorto
Score7165
Tourist attractions within 2 km75122
Park area within 2 km111 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 15 points.15
BudapestPorto
Score6954
Notable places within 2 km20685
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 6 points.6
BudapestPorto
Score8074
Price level global4855.9
Daily budget€104€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 7 points.7
BudapestPorto
Score6471
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall27 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestPorto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 35 m
€159-167
BUD · 18 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
4 h 20 m
€235-292
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
7 h 20 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestPorto
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 m104 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestPorto
City population1,685,209231,800
People per km²3,2095,599
Museums within 10 km8142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8670
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). 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.