VacationSelector

Faro or Rotterdam?

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 year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
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.

FaroRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 24 points.24
FaroRotterdam
Score6137
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1322
Coast distance0 km24 km
Water distance0 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 28 points.28
FaroRotterdam
Score4472
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2246
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 38 points.38
FaroRotterdam
Score2260
Museums within 10 km941
Museums within 2 km of centre820
Share of museums within 2 km %8949
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 28 points.28
FaroRotterdam
Score2149
Drinking venues within 4 km143542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8670
Nightclubs within 4 km840
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 15 points.15
FaroRotterdam
Score5742
Protected land share 50 km %1110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4279
Park area within 2 km34 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 26 points.26
FaroRotterdam
Score3662
Tourist attractions within 2 km1027
Park area within 2 km34 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km28
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 29 points.29
FaroRotterdam
Score2251
Notable places within 2 km1474
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 16 points.16
FaroRotterdam
Score7458
Price level global55.979.2
Daily budget€109€181
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 27 points.27
FaroRotterdam
Score8356
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroRotterdam
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 40 m
€134-165
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
BristolBRS
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 15 m
€108-157
AMS · 47 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RTM · 5 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

MeasureFaroRotterdam
Official languagePortugueseDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroRotterdam
City population64,560664,311
People per km²3192,080
Museums within 10 km240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3477
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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.