VacationSelector

Faro or Ghent?

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

Your match

Faro
47
match

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

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife 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.

FaroGhent
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 35 points.35
FaroGhent
Score6126
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km138
Coast distance0 km32 km
Water distance0 km32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
FaroGhent
Score4470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2249
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 36 points.36
FaroGhent
Score2258
Museums within 10 km924
Museums within 2 km of centre820
Share of museums within 2 km %8983
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 28 points.28
FaroGhent
Score2149
Drinking venues within 4 km143570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8678
Nightclubs within 4 km826
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 23 points.23
FaroGhent
Score5734
Protected land share 50 km %117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %4287
Park area within 2 km34 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 14 points.14
FaroGhent
Score3650
Tourist attractions within 2 km1019
Park area within 2 km34 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 24 points.24
FaroGhent
Score2246
Notable places within 2 km1455
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 14 points.14
FaroGhent
Score7460
Price level global55.976.2
Daily budget€109€180
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 27 points.27
FaroGhent
Score8356
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months61
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroGhent
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 84 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 30 m
€116-130
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureFaroGhent
Official languagePortugueseFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m12 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroGhent
City population64,560272,657
People per km²3191,728
Museums within 10 km230
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3483
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.