VacationSelector

Cardiff or Porto?

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

Your match

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families 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.

CardiffPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 14 points.14
CardiffPorto
Score4660
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km852
Coast distance2 km4 km
Water distance2 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 8 points.8
CardiffPorto
Score6068
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5411,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3227
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 32 points.32
CardiffPorto
Score3971
Museums within 10 km61101
Museums within 2 km of centre657
Share of museums within 2 km %1056
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Porto leads by 10 points.10
CardiffPorto
Score4858
Drinking venues within 4 km536900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7463
Nightclubs within 4 km3538
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 17 points.17
CardiffPorto
Score5033
Protected land share 50 km %187
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6861
Park area within 2 km88 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 33 points.33
CardiffPorto
Score3265
Tourist attractions within 2 km4122
Park area within 2 km88 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 9 points.9
CardiffPorto
Score4554
Notable places within 2 km5185
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 20 points.20
CardiffPorto
Score5474
Price level global84.955.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 17 points.17
CardiffPorto
Score5471
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months03
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
FunchalFNC
3 h 25 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 5 m
€67-130
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureCardiffPorto
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m104 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffPorto
City population383,536231,800
People per km²2,7345,599
Museums within 10 km942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5570
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). 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. 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.