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A jetty on the lagoon, Faro
FaroA jetty on the lagoon
The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance

Photos: Faro by Efrem Efre, Pexels License; Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Faro or Keystone?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Faro for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Faro’s own page.

Choose Keystone for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Keystone’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Faro 74, Keystone 5: Faro leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Faro 48, Keystone 27: Faro leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Faro 35, Keystone 7: Faro leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Faro 32, Keystone 12: Faro leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Faro 62, Keystone 93: Keystone leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Faro 64, Keystone 55: Faro leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Faro 60, Keystone 66: Keystone leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Faro 60, Keystone 50: Faro leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Faro 35, Keystone 22: Faro leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Faro 60, Keystone 12: Faro leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Faro 30, Keystone 22: Faro leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Faro 33, Keystone 32: Faro leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Faro and Keystone.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Faro
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Keystone
34match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Faro in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFaroKeystone
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m2,796 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroKeystone
City population64,5601,369
People per km²31913
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.