VacationSelector

Faro or Tampa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

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

Tampa
44
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

FaroTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 14 points.14
FaroTampa
Score6175
Swim season months38
Beaches 10 km1310
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 10 points.10
FaroTampa
Score4454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2231
Museums & heritage. Tampa leads by 5 points.5
FaroTampa
Score2227
Museums within 10 km913
Museums within 2 km of centre810
Share of museums within 2 km %8977
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Tampa leads by 18 points.18
FaroTampa
Score2139
Drinking venues within 4 km143324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8670
Nightclubs within 4 km826
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 27 points.27
FaroTampa
Score5730
Protected land share 50 km %116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4272
Park area within 2 km34 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 6 points.6
FaroTampa
Score3630
Tourist attractions within 2 km103
Park area within 2 km34 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Faro leads by 1 points.1
FaroTampa
Score2221
Notable places within 2 km1413
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 31 points.31
FaroTampa
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 8 points.8
FaroTampa
Score8375
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months61
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
EdinburghEDI
3 h 10 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureFaroTampa
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m30 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroTampa
City population64,560384,959
People per km²319848
Museums within 10 km26
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3447
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months8 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.