VacationSelector

Faro or Hamburg?

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.

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

FaroHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroHamburg
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1316
Coast distance0 km22 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 29 points.29
FaroHamburg
Score4473
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2551,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2238
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 38 points.38
FaroHamburg
Score2260
Museums within 10 km994
Museums within 2 km of centre850
Share of museums within 2 km %8953
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 47 points.47
FaroHamburg
Score2168
Drinking venues within 4 km1431,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8662
Nightclubs within 4 km8119
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 17 points.17
FaroHamburg
Score5740
Protected land share 50 km %1114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %4299
Park area within 2 km34 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 24 points.24
FaroHamburg
Score3660
Tourist attractions within 2 km1040
Park area within 2 km34 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 37 points.37
FaroHamburg
Score2259
Notable places within 2 km14118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 14 points.14
FaroHamburg
Score7460
Price level global55.975.9
Daily budget€109€163
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 28 points.28
FaroHamburg
Score8355
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm39 mm to 82 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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroHamburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 25 m
€156-284
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 45 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
HAM · 9 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

MeasureFaroHamburg
Official languagePortugueseGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroHamburg
City population64,5601,910,160
People per km²3192,530
Museums within 10 km277
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3483
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. 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.