VacationSelector

Faro or Helsinki?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Helsinki
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

FaroHelsinki
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 1 points.1
FaroHelsinki
Score6160
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km13157
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 27 points.27
FaroHelsinki
Score4471
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2551,005
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2238
Museums & heritage. Helsinki leads by 27 points.27
FaroHelsinki
Score2249
Museums within 10 km957
Museums within 2 km of centre823
Share of museums within 2 km %8940
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 35 points.35
FaroHelsinki
Score2156
Drinking venues within 4 km143807
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123607
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8675
Nightclubs within 4 km840
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 15 points.15
FaroHelsinki
Score5742
Protected land share 50 km %113
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4253
Park area within 2 km34 hectares185 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 22 points.22
FaroHelsinki
Score3658
Tourist attractions within 2 km1020
Park area within 2 km34 hectares185 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 51 points.51
FaroHelsinki
Score2273
Notable places within 2 km14257
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 18 points.18
FaroHelsinki
Score7456
Price level global55.981.6
Daily budget€109€184
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 35 points.35
FaroHelsinki
Score8348
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm32 mm to 84 mm
Dry months63
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
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). Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroHelsinki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 40 m
€134-165
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 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

MeasureFaroHelsinki
Official languagePortugueseFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m17 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroHelsinki
City population64,560694,392
People per km²3193,239
Museums within 10 km274
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3478
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. 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.