VacationSelector

Faro or Philadelphia?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife 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.

FaroPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroPhiladelphia
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km131
Coast distance0 km13 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 33 points.33
FaroPhiladelphia
Score4477
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2551,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2235
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 38 points.38
FaroPhiladelphia
Score2260
Museums within 10 km989
Museums within 2 km of centre848
Share of museums within 2 km %8954
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 38 points.38
FaroPhiladelphia
Score2159
Drinking venues within 4 km143930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8662
Nightclubs within 4 km841
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 8 points.8
FaroPhiladelphia
Score5749
Protected land share 50 km %1114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4289
Park area within 2 km34 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 17 points.17
FaroPhiladelphia
Score3653
Tourist attractions within 2 km1016
Park area within 2 km34 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 32 points.32
FaroPhiladelphia
Score2254
Notable places within 2 km1488
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 31 points.31
FaroPhiladelphia
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 23 points.23
FaroPhiladelphia
Score8360
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm69 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroPhiladelphia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
PortoOPO
1 h 15 m
€37-132
FAO · 3 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 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

MeasureFaroPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroPhiladelphia
City population64,5601,603,797
People per km²3194,339
Museums within 10 km254
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3475
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. 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.