VacationSelector

Faro or Goreme?

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

Your match

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Goreme
32
match

Wins on good for families and value for money 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.

FaroGoreme
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroGoreme
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance0 km205 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Faro leads by 14 points.14
FaroGoreme
Score4430
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255100
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2221
Museums & heritage. Faro leads by 10 points.10
FaroGoreme
Score2212
Museums within 10 km910
Museums within 2 km of centre81
Share of museums within 2 km %8910
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Faro leads by 9 points.9
FaroGoreme
Score2112
Drinking venues within 4 km14399
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre12358
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8659
Nightclubs within 4 km82
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 31 points.31
FaroGoreme
Score5726
Protected land share 50 km %1111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km34 hectares
Good for families. Goreme leads by 16 points.16
FaroGoreme
Score3652
Tourist attractions within 2 km1051
Park area within 2 km34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Faro leads by 22 points.22
FaroGoreme
Score220
Notable places within 2 km142
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Goreme leads by 15 points.15
FaroGoreme
Score7489
Price level global55.935.2
Daily budget€109€100
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 16 points.16
FaroGoreme
Score8367
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C4.6 °C to 29.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm7 mm to 59 mm
Dry months65
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
Goreme
5
7
12
16
22
26
30
30
25
20
12
7
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Goreme
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Goreme
54
42
53
42
59
53
13
7
15
30
32
48
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Goreme
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Goreme
3
4
5
7
9
11
13
12
9
7
5
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroGoreme
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 0 m
€138-208
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
3 h 55 m
€230-246
1 stop
ASR · 60 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
StuttgartSTR
2 h 55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 25 m
€184-216
1 stop
ASR · 60 km
CologneCGN
3 h 0 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 55 m
€204-223
1 stop
ASR · 60 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
RotterdamRTM
2 h 55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 30 m
€116-130
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
ASR · 60 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

MeasureFaroGoreme
Official languagePortugueseTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m1,100 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroGoreme
City population64,5602,000
People per km²31920
Museums within 10 km25
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3438
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. 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.