VacationSelector

Faro or Rome?

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.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

FaroRome
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 28 points.28
FaroRome
Score6133
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km133
Coast distance0 km24 km
Water distance0 km24 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 16 points.16
FaroRome
Score4460
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2552,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2210
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 62 points.62
FaroRome
Score2284
Museums within 10 km9161
Museums within 2 km of centre879
Share of museums within 2 km %8949
Unesco sites within 50 km07
Nightlife. Rome leads by 53 points.53
FaroRome
Score2174
Drinking venues within 4 km1432,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8645
Nightclubs within 4 km885
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 13 points.13
FaroRome
Score5770
Protected land share 50 km %1119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4278
Park area within 2 km34 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 50 points.50
FaroRome
Score3686
Tourist attractions within 2 km10126
Park area within 2 km34 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 77 points.77
FaroRome
Score2299
Notable places within 2 km141,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 6 points.6
FaroRome
Score7468
Price level global55.964.9
Daily budget€109€155
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 12 points.12
FaroRome
Score8371
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm21 mm to 114 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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Rome
10
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
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroRome
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
2 h 55 m
€118-198
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 10 m
€176-218
FCO · 23 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
CIA · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 5 m
€94-137
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
CIA · 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

MeasureFaroRome
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 m21 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroRome
City population64,5602,748,109
People per km²3192,135
Museums within 10 km2177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km07
Distinct cuisines in the centre3465
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 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.