VacationSelector

Como or Faro?

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

Your match

Como
34
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

ComoFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
ComoFaro
Score061
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km813
Coast distance156 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Faro leads by 19 points.19
ComoFaro
Score2544
Restaurants within 2 km of centre259255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km722
Museums & heritage. Como leads by 24 points.24
ComoFaro
Score4622
Museums within 10 km99
Museums within 2 km of centre68
Share of museums within 2 km %6789
Unesco sites within 50 km80
Nightlife. Como leads by 3 points.3
ComoFaro
Score2421
Drinking venues within 4 km213143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre143123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6786
Nightclubs within 4 km18
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 17 points.17
ComoFaro
Score4057
Protected land share 50 km %2311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km15 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 21 points.21
ComoFaro
Score1536
Tourist attractions within 2 km610
Park area within 2 km15 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Como leads by 8 points.8
ComoFaro
Score3022
Notable places within 2 km2214
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 6 points.6
ComoFaro
Score6874
Price level global64.955.9
Daily budget€155€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 25 points.25
ComoFaro
Score5883
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months06
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
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Como
No coastline within reach
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3
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. Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGY · 51 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 34 km
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 43 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 34 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 34 km
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 30 m
€58-138
LIN · 43 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
1 h 20 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 2026-08 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

MeasureComoFaro
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
Elevation201 m10 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoFaro
City population83,18464,560
People per km²2,242319
Museums within 10 km92
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km80
Distinct cuisines in the centre2234
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). 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.