VacationSelector

Faro or York?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

FaroYork
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroYork
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km132
Coast distance0 km50 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. York leads by 10 points.10
FaroYork
Score4454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2231
Museums & heritage. York leads by 24 points.24
FaroYork
Score2246
Museums within 10 km918
Museums within 2 km of centre816
Share of museums within 2 km %8989
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. York leads by 22 points.22
FaroYork
Score2143
Drinking venues within 4 km143450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8678
Nightclubs within 4 km814
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 24 points.24
FaroYork
Score5733
Protected land share 50 km %1117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %4295
Park area within 2 km34 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 7 points.7
FaroYork
Score3643
Tourist attractions within 2 km1013
Park area within 2 km34 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. York leads by 17 points.17
FaroYork
Score2239
Notable places within 2 km1437
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 20 points.20
FaroYork
Score7454
Price level global55.984.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 27 points.27
FaroYork
Score8356
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm39 mm to 66 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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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroYork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BristolBRS
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
NCL · 126 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 30 m
€116-130
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureFaroYork
Official languagePortugueseEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m25 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroYork
City population64,560208,400
People per km²319766
Museums within 10 km224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3454
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.