VacationSelector

Faro or Pisa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Faro
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

FaroPisa
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 40 points.40
FaroPisa
Score6121
Swim season months34
Beaches 10 km131
Coast distance0 km10 km
Water distance0 km10 km
Places to eat. Faro leads by 10 points.10
FaroPisa
Score4434
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km229
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 33 points.33
FaroPisa
Score2255
Museums within 10 km927
Museums within 2 km of centre822
Share of museums within 2 km %8981
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Pisa leads by 7 points.7
FaroPisa
Score2128
Drinking venues within 4 km143232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8688
Nightclubs within 4 km83
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 18 points.18
FaroPisa
Score5739
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4265
Park area within 2 km34 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 11 points.11
FaroPisa
Score3647
Tourist attractions within 2 km1020
Park area within 2 km34 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 25 points.25
FaroPisa
Score2247
Notable places within 2 km1458
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 6 points.6
FaroPisa
Score7468
Price level global55.964.9
Daily budget€109€155
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 13 points.13
FaroPisa
Score8370
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months62
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Pisa
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
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
BristolBRS
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
EindhovenEIN
2 h 55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 4 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

MeasureFaroPisa
Official languagePortugueseItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m4 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroPisa
City population64,56088,737
People per km²319479
Museums within 10 km227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3429
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.