VacationSelector

Faro or West Palm Beach?

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 good for families with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

FaroWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 27 points.27
FaroWest Palm Beach
Score6188
Swim season months312
Beaches 10 km1310
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Faro leads by 7 points.7
FaroWest Palm Beach
Score4437
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2214
Museums & heritage. Faro leads by 5 points.5
FaroWest Palm Beach
Score2217
Museums within 10 km95
Museums within 2 km of centre83
Share of museums within 2 km %8960
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Faro leads by 1 points.1
FaroWest Palm Beach
Score2120
Drinking venues within 4 km143132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre12390
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8668
Nightclubs within 4 km810
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 12 points.12
FaroWest Palm Beach
Score5769
Protected land share 50 km %1115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4245
Park area within 2 km34 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 15 points.15
FaroWest Palm Beach
Score3621
Tourist attractions within 2 km103
Park area within 2 km34 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Faro leads by 10 points.10
FaroWest Palm Beach
Score2212
Notable places within 2 km148
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 31 points.31
FaroWest Palm Beach
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 8 points.8
FaroWest Palm Beach
Score8375
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureFaroWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroWest Palm Beach
City population64,560117,415
People per km²319786
Museums within 10 km24
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3418
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 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.