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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Florence or Porto?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’s own page.

Choose Porto for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Florence 14, Porto 40: Porto leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Porto 70: Florence leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Porto 68: Florence leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Porto 65: Porto leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Porto 64: Porto leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Porto 79: Florence leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Porto 52: Porto leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Porto 66: Florence leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Porto 52: Florence leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Porto 62: Porto leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Porto 52: Florence leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Porto 34: Florence leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Porto.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Florence
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Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Porto
59match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Florence has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorencePorto
Official languageItalianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m104 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorencePorto
City population360,930273,476
People per km²3,5286,606
Museums within 10 km14142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.