VacationSelector

Faro or New York?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
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.

FaroNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 3 points.3
FaroNew York
Score6164
Swim season months33
Beaches 10 km1317
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 51 points.51
FaroNew York
Score4495
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2556,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2238
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 38 points.38
FaroNew York
Score2260
Museums within 10 km9119
Museums within 2 km of centre831
Share of museums within 2 km %8926
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. New York leads by 68 points.68
FaroNew York
Score2189
Drinking venues within 4 km1434,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1232,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8648
Nightclubs within 4 km8192
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 18 points.18
FaroNew York
Score5739
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4269
Park area within 2 km34 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 36 points.36
FaroNew York
Score3672
Tourist attractions within 2 km1037
Park area within 2 km34 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. New York leads by 52 points.52
FaroNew York
Score2274
Notable places within 2 km14268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 31 points.31
FaroNew York
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 25 points.25
FaroNew York
Score8358
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
New York
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
6 h 40 m
€391-493
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 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

MeasureFaroNew York
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m25 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroNew York
City population64,5608,804,190
People per km²3197,256
Museums within 10 km2157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre34132
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months3 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.