VacationSelector

Faro or San Diego?

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 value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families 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.

FaroSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 2 points.2
FaroSan Diego
Score6163
Swim season months31
Beaches 10 km1342
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 19 points.19
FaroSan Diego
Score4463
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2227
Museums & heritage. San Diego leads by 22 points.22
FaroSan Diego
Score2244
Museums within 10 km959
Museums within 2 km of centre830
Share of museums within 2 km %8951
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 29 points.29
FaroSan Diego
Score2150
Drinking venues within 4 km143615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8666
Nightclubs within 4 km831
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 2 points.2
FaroSan Diego
Score5755
Protected land share 50 km %116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4252
Park area within 2 km34 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 39 points.39
FaroSan Diego
Score3675
Tourist attractions within 2 km1040
Park area within 2 km34 hectares308 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. San Diego leads by 18 points.18
FaroSan Diego
Score2240
Notable places within 2 km1440
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 31 points.31
FaroSan Diego
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 5 points.5
FaroSan Diego
Score8388
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months69
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
San Diego
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). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroSan Diego
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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

MeasureFaroSan Diego
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m129 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroSan Diego
City population64,5601,386,932
People per km²3191,438
Museums within 10 km226
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3444
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months1 month

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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.