VacationSelector

Faro or Innsbruck?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Innsbruck
44
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

FaroInnsbruck
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroInnsbruck
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1310
Coast distance0 km217 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Innsbruck leads by 2 points.2
FaroInnsbruck
Score4446
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255270
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2224
Museums & heritage. Innsbruck leads by 26 points.26
FaroInnsbruck
Score2248
Museums within 10 km934
Museums within 2 km of centre821
Share of museums within 2 km %8962
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Innsbruck leads by 13 points.13
FaroInnsbruck
Score2134
Drinking venues within 4 km143271
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8680
Nightclubs within 4 km816
Nature & day trips. Innsbruck leads by 3 points.3
FaroInnsbruck
Score5760
Protected land share 50 km %1131
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km34 hectares38 hectares
Good for families. Innsbruck leads by 9 points.9
FaroInnsbruck
Score3645
Tourist attractions within 2 km1018
Park area within 2 km34 hectares38 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Innsbruck leads by 23 points.23
FaroInnsbruck
Score2245
Notable places within 2 km1453
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 15 points.15
FaroInnsbruck
Score7459
Price level global55.976.9
Daily budget€109€160
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 24 points.24
FaroInnsbruck
Score8359
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C3.9 °C to 25.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm40 mm to 144 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
Innsbruck
4
7
12
16
21
24
26
25
21
16
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Innsbruck
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Innsbruck
50
40
59
60
90
119
129
144
89
70
63
59
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Innsbruck
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Innsbruck
3
4
6
6
7
7
8
7
6
5
3
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). Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroInnsbruck
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
BristolBRS
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
PortoOPO
1 h 15 m
€37-132
FAO · 3 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 124 km
EindhovenEIN
2 h 55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MUC · 124 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

MeasureFaroInnsbruck
Official languagePortugueseGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m574 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroInnsbruck
City population64,560132,499
People per km²3191,263
Museums within 10 km227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3447
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.