VacationSelector

Faro or Nice?

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.

Nice
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

FaroNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 12 points.12
FaroNice
Score6173
Swim season months34
Beaches 10 km1370
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 25 points.25
FaroNice
Score4469
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2551,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2228
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 24 points.24
FaroNice
Score2246
Museums within 10 km927
Museums within 2 km of centre814
Share of museums within 2 km %8952
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Nice leads by 23 points.23
FaroNice
Score2144
Drinking venues within 4 km143428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8691
Nightclubs within 4 km826
Nature & day trips. Faro and Nice are level on 57.
FaroNice
Score5757
Protected land share 50 km %1124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %4262
Park area within 2 km34 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 6 points.6
FaroNice
Score3630
Tourist attractions within 2 km104
Park area within 2 km34 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Nice leads by 25 points.25
FaroNice
Score2247
Notable places within 2 km1460
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 12 points.12
FaroNice
Score7462
Price level global55.973.7
Daily budget€109€160
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 9 points.9
FaroNice
Score8374
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months63
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroNice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
BristolBRS
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 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

MeasureFaroNice
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 m0 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroNice
City population64,560357,737
People per km²3194,975
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3465
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months4 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.