VacationSelector

Faro or Shanghai?

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.

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families 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.

FaroShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 44 points.44
FaroShanghai
Score6117
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance0 km18 km
Water distance0 km18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai leads by 23 points.23
FaroShanghai
Score2245
Museums within 10 km9108
Museums within 2 km of centre828
Share of museums within 2 km %8926
Unesco sites within 50 km00
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 15 points.15
FaroShanghai
Score5742
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4282
Park area within 2 km34 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 45 points.45
FaroShanghai
Score3681
Tourist attractions within 2 km1086
Park area within 2 km34 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km210
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 29 points.29
FaroShanghai
Score2251
Notable places within 2 km1473
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 5 points.5
FaroShanghai
Score7479
Price level global55.949
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 18 points.18
FaroShanghai
Score8365
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm43 mm to 216 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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Shanghai
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
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
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). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroShanghai
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
HGH · 149 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 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

MeasureFaroShanghai
Official languagePortuguesePutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation10 m4 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroShanghai
City population64,56024,870,895
People per km²3193,922
Museums within 10 km244
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3464
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. 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.