VacationSelector

Faro or Lyon?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

FaroLyon
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroLyon
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1326
Coast distance0 km253 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 35 points.35
FaroLyon
Score4479
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2551,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2240
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 33 points.33
FaroLyon
Score2255
Museums within 10 km953
Museums within 2 km of centre825
Share of museums within 2 km %8947
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 37 points.37
FaroLyon
Score2158
Drinking venues within 4 km143866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8671
Nightclubs within 4 km847
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 24 points.24
FaroLyon
Score5733
Protected land share 50 km %116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %06
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km34 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 23 points.23
FaroLyon
Score3659
Tourist attractions within 2 km1025
Park area within 2 km34 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 32 points.32
FaroLyon
Score2254
Notable places within 2 km1486
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 12 points.12
FaroLyon
Score7462
Price level global55.973.7
Daily budget€109€160
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 19 points.19
FaroLyon
Score8364
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm43 mm to 101 mm
Dry months60
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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
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). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 20 m
€109-165
LYS · 20 km
PortoOPO
1 h 15 m
€37-132
FAO · 3 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GNB · 59 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 55 m
€105-126
LYS · 20 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

MeasureFaroLyon
Official languagePortugueseFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m160 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroLyon
City population64,560519,127
People per km²31910,838
Museums within 10 km242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre34148
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.