VacationSelector

Faro or London?

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 value for money with your weighting.

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

FaroLondon
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroLondon
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1347
Coast distance0 km43 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. London leads by 44 points.44
FaroLondon
Score4488
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2553,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2240
Museums & heritage. London leads by 50 points.50
FaroLondon
Score2272
Museums within 10 km9148
Museums within 2 km of centre849
Share of museums within 2 km %8933
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. London leads by 74 points.74
FaroLondon
Score2195
Drinking venues within 4 km1435,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1232,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8646
Nightclubs within 4 km8312
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 17 points.17
FaroLondon
Score5740
Protected land share 50 km %1116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %014
Land share of disc %4297
Park area within 2 km34 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 39 points.39
FaroLondon
Score3675
Tourist attractions within 2 km1085
Park area within 2 km34 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. London leads by 67 points.67
FaroLondon
Score2289
Notable places within 2 km14649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 20 points.20
FaroLondon
Score7454
Price level global55.984.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 20 points.20
FaroLondon
Score8363
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm38 mm to 67 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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
London
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroLondon
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
BelfastBFS, BHD
3 h 0 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
€64-112
LGW · 40 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 30 m
€116-130
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
€184-208
LHR · 23 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 40 m
€85-128
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 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

MeasureFaroLondon
Official languagePortugueseEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m4 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroLondon
City population64,5608,799,728
People per km²3195,598
Museums within 10 km2215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre34116
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.