VacationSelector

Chicago or Porto?

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

Your match

Chicago
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money 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.

ChicagoPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 7 points.7
ChicagoPorto
Score5360
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km1252
Coast distance10,000 km4 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 13 points.13
ChicagoPorto
Score8168
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1471,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3727
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 25 points.25
ChicagoPorto
Score4671
Museums within 10 km45101
Museums within 2 km of centre2057
Share of museums within 2 km %4456
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 4 points.4
ChicagoPorto
Score6258
Drinking venues within 4 km1,123900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre728570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6563
Nightclubs within 4 km5138
Nature & day trips. Chicago leads by 5 points.5
ChicagoPorto
Score3833
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km118 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 10 points.10
ChicagoPorto
Score5565
Tourist attractions within 2 km18122
Park area within 2 km118 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 16 points.16
ChicagoPorto
Score7054
Notable places within 2 km21785
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 31 points.31
ChicagoPorto
Score4374
Price level global10055.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 14 points.14
ChicagoPorto
Score5771
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Chicago
No sunshine record
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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromChicagoPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
8 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€201-231
ORD · 25 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
8 h 15 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 5 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
€189-423
ORD · 25 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
BostonBOS, PSM
2 h 20 m
€220-252
ORD · 25 km
6 h 35 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
10 h 15 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

MeasureChicagoPorto
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m104 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoPorto
City population2,746,388231,800
People per km²4,5295,599
Museums within 10 km4342
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8770
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 monthNone

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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.