VacationSelector

Faro or Fort Lauderdale?

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

Faro
47
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

FaroFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 23 points.23
FaroFort Lauderdale
Score6184
Swim season months312
Beaches 10 km137
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Fort Lauderdale leads by 1 points.1
FaroFort Lauderdale
Score4445
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2218
Museums & heritage. Faro leads by 2 points.2
FaroFort Lauderdale
Score2220
Museums within 10 km914
Museums within 2 km of centre86
Share of museums within 2 km %8943
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale leads by 13 points.13
FaroFort Lauderdale
Score2134
Drinking venues within 4 km143259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8656
Nightclubs within 4 km818
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 24 points.24
FaroFort Lauderdale
Score5781
Protected land share 50 km %1120
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4251
Park area within 2 km34 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 17 points.17
FaroFort Lauderdale
Score3619
Tourist attractions within 2 km102
Park area within 2 km34 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Faro leads by 22 points.22
FaroFort Lauderdale
Score220
Notable places within 2 km142
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 31 points.31
FaroFort Lauderdale
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 7 points.7
FaroFort Lauderdale
Score8376
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm55 mm to 219 mm
Dry months60
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroFort Lauderdale
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 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

MeasureFaroFort Lauderdale
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m11 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroFort Lauderdale
City population64,560182,760
People per km²3191,829
Museums within 10 km26
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3425
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.