VacationSelector

Faro or Paris?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

FaroParis
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroParis
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km132
Coast distance0 km149 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 46 points.46
FaroParis
Score4490
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2554,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2233
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 54 points.54
FaroParis
Score2276
Museums within 10 km9185
Museums within 2 km of centre865
Share of museums within 2 km %8935
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Paris leads by 67 points.67
FaroParis
Score2188
Drinking venues within 4 km1433,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1231,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8645
Nightclubs within 4 km8201
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 9 points.9
FaroParis
Score5748
Protected land share 50 km %1128
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km34 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 39 points.39
FaroParis
Score3675
Tourist attractions within 2 km1089
Park area within 2 km34 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 72 points.72
FaroParis
Score2294
Notable places within 2 km14865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 12 points.12
FaroParis
Score7462
Price level global55.973.7
Daily budget€109€160
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 17 points.17
FaroParis
Score8366
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm38 mm to 75 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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Paris
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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroParis
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
€115-156
CDG · 22 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
€108-163
CDG · 22 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 20 m
€138-242
ORY · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
PortoOPO
1 h 15 m
€37-132
FAO · 3 km
2 h 5 m
€113-136
ORY · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 40 m
€85-128
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 10 m
€130-199
ORY · 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

MeasureFaroParis
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 m27 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroParis
City population64,5602,103,778
People per km²31919,960
Museums within 10 km2251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre34169
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.