VacationSelector

Faro or Melbourne?

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 value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
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.

FaroMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 6 points.6
FaroMelbourne
Score6155
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1319
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 31 points.31
FaroMelbourne
Score4475
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2551,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2229
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 27 points.27
FaroMelbourne
Score2249
Museums within 10 km942
Museums within 2 km of centre824
Share of museums within 2 km %8957
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 53 points.53
FaroMelbourne
Score2174
Drinking venues within 4 km1431,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1231,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8662
Nightclubs within 4 km8124
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 14 points.14
FaroMelbourne
Score5743
Protected land share 50 km %116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4281
Park area within 2 km34 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 24 points.24
FaroMelbourne
Score3660
Tourist attractions within 2 km1026
Park area within 2 km34 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 35 points.35
FaroMelbourne
Score2257
Notable places within 2 km14103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 24 points.24
FaroMelbourne
Score7450
Price level global55.990.2
Daily budget€109—
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 7 points.7
FaroMelbourne
Score8376
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Before you go

MeasureFaroMelbourne
Official languagePortugueseEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation10 m31 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroMelbourne
City population64,5605,350,705
People per km²319535
Museums within 10 km242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3486
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. 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.