VacationSelector

Faro or San Francisco?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

San Francisco
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

FaroSan Francisco
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 1 points.1
FaroSan Francisco
Score6160
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1344
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 39 points.39
FaroSan Francisco
Score4483
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2552,359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2239
Museums & heritage. San Francisco leads by 22 points.22
FaroSan Francisco
Score2244
Museums within 10 km957
Museums within 2 km of centre829
Share of museums within 2 km %8951
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 47 points.47
FaroSan Francisco
Score2168
Drinking venues within 4 km1431,434
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123928
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8665
Nightclubs within 4 km897
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 3 points.3
FaroSan Francisco
Score5760
Protected land share 50 km %1117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %4257
Park area within 2 km34 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 21 points.21
FaroSan Francisco
Score3657
Tourist attractions within 2 km1048
Park area within 2 km34 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 41 points.41
FaroSan Francisco
Score2263
Notable places within 2 km14147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 31 points.31
FaroSan Francisco
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 5 points.5
FaroSan Francisco
Score8378
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C14 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm0 mm to 105 mm
Dry months67
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 Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
San Francisco
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 Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroSan Francisco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
4 h 55 m
€339-541
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 18 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 Francisco
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 m16 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroSan Francisco
City population64,560873,965
People per km²3191,455
Museums within 10 km250
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre34108
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. 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.