VacationSelector

Cordoba or Lisbon?

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

Your match

Cordoba
47
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Cordoba if you want heat and a small, walkable heritage core, and can travel in spring or autumn; it has no coast, a narrower choice of restaurants and fewer museums, and July highs of 37°C rule out much midday walking.

Choose Lisbon if you want beaches within reach, a far wider range of places to eat and drink, and more to see on foot from the centre.

Scoreboard

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

CordobaLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
CordobaLisbon
Score057
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km024
Coast distance134 km2 km
Water distance—2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 33 points.33
CordobaLisbon
Score4780
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6162,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1331
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 23 points.23
CordobaLisbon
Score4770
Museums within 10 km20124
Museums within 2 km of centre1954
Share of museums within 2 km %9544
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 22 points.22
CordobaLisbon
Score4365
Drinking venues within 4 km4441,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre353956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8078
Nightclubs within 4 km1465
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 19 points.19
CordobaLisbon
Score3756
Protected land share 50 km %611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10054
Park area within 2 km108 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
CordobaLisbon
Score6369
Tourist attractions within 2 km5982
Park area within 2 km108 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 22 points.22
CordobaLisbon
Score4466
Notable places within 2 km48169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 3 points.3
CordobaLisbon
Score7174
Price level global60.855.9
Daily budget€122€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
CordobaLisbon
Score7278
Monthly daytime high15.1 °C to 37.1 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 91 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months44
0255075100

Where they differ

Cordoba runs hotter, with daytime highs of 15-37°C across the year against Lisbon's 15-28°C, and it holds more park space near the centre. Its museums cluster tightly around the old core, so the heritage it has can be covered on foot in a day.

Lisbon has 24 beaches within reach where Cordoba has none, many times as many restaurants near the centre and a much wider range of kitchens, many times as many museums, and about three times as many notable places within walking distance of the centre.

Where they are alike

Neither country's price level settles this decision: the national estimates for restaurants and hotels, €122 in Spain and €109 in Portugal, sit close together.

The weather patterns rhyme as well. Both bottom out at 15°C in January, both have several near-dry months at 40mm of rain or less, and both get a lot of sun over the year. For families, each has attractions and green space close to the centre, in slightly different proportions.

Which traveller are you?

Anyone travelling mainly to eat and go out belongs in Lisbon: many times as many restaurants near the centre, a much wider range of kitchens, and about three times as many places to drink, most of them central.

Families are decently served by both. Lisbon adds a theme park and more attractions near the centre, plus 24 beaches, though the sea tops out at 19°C. Cordoba answers with more park space near the centre.

If you want dependable heat and short walks between sights, Cordoba fits, with July highs of 37°C and a compact core. Day trips are thinner, though: 6% of the surrounding land is protected against Lisbon's 11%.

What the numbers don't tell you

A strong beach showing and a strong weather showing are both annual averages. Lisbon's beaches come with water that only peaks at 19°C in September, after the warmest months, so swimming is bracing rather than the reason to go. Cordoba's even weather figure covers a summer too hot for long walks and a wet, dark end to the year.

The daily budget, €122 for Spain and €109 for Portugal, is a national price level for restaurants and hotels, not a measurement of either city. A capital or a heavily visited city can sit further from its own country's average than these two figures sit from each other.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Cordoba
15
17
21
24
28
33
37
37
32
26
19
16
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Cordoba
No coastline within reach
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Cordoba
57
53
63
54
43
11
1
7
37
79
79
91
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Cordoba
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cordoba
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Cordoba's best window is April to May, when highs run 24-28°C and rain has eased to around 43mm; October is the other comfortable stretch at 26°C. Midsummer is almost rainless but reaches 37°C, which is hard work on foot.

Lisbon's good run is longer, June to September at 26-28°C, with the sea at its warmest, 18-19°C, and midsummer close to dry. Its winter is the wetter of the two, with November at 121mm against Cordoba's 79mm.

Getting there

Flying fromCordobaLisbon
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 50 m
€120-145
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 137 km
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 35 m
€95-118
LIS · 7 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

MeasureCordobaLisbon
Official languageSpanishPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation120 m100 m
Main airportCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCordobaLisbon
City population323,262545,796
People per km²2585,453
Museums within 10 km1678
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre27106
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.