VacationSelector

Faro or Washington DC?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Washington DC
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

FaroWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 43 points.43
FaroWashington DC
Score6118
Swim season months33
Beaches 10 km131
Coast distance0 km34 km
Water distance0 km34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 33 points.33
FaroWashington DC
Score4477
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2551,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2236
Museums & heritage. Washington DC leads by 33 points.33
FaroWashington DC
Score2255
Museums within 10 km983
Museums within 2 km of centre855
Share of museums within 2 km %8966
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Washington DC leads by 40 points.40
FaroWashington DC
Score2161
Drinking venues within 4 km1431,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8658
Nightclubs within 4 km854
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 15 points.15
FaroWashington DC
Score5742
Protected land share 50 km %1110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %4294
Park area within 2 km34 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Washington DC leads by 2 points.2
FaroWashington DC
Score3638
Tourist attractions within 2 km107
Park area within 2 km34 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 54 points.54
FaroWashington DC
Score2276
Notable places within 2 km14305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 31 points.31
FaroWashington DC
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 21 points.21
FaroWashington DC
Score8362
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm65 mm to 108 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
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Washington DC
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
Washington DC
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). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroWashington DC
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
7 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 5 m
€233-271
DCA · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
€158-333
IAD · 37 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
EdinburghEDI
3 h 10 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasureFaroWashington DC
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 m72 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroWashington DC
City population64,560689,545
People per km²3193,896
Museums within 10 km299
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3482
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months3 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.