VacationSelector

Florence or Porto?

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

Your match

Florence
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

FlorencePorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
FlorencePorto
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km052
Coast distance78 km4 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 9 points.9
FlorencePorto
Score5968
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2991,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1527
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 11 points.11
FlorencePorto
Score8271
Museums within 10 km132101
Museums within 2 km of centre9357
Share of museums within 2 km %7056
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Porto leads by 2 points.2
FlorencePorto
Score5658
Drinking venues within 4 km818900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7363
Nightclubs within 4 km3438
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 5 points.5
FlorencePorto
Score3833
Protected land share 50 km %97
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km86 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 13 points.13
FlorencePorto
Score5265
Tourist attractions within 2 km30122
Park area within 2 km86 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 21 points.21
FlorencePorto
Score7554
Notable places within 2 km29285
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 6 points.6
FlorencePorto
Score6874
Price level global64.955.9
Daily budget€155€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 3 points.3
FlorencePorto
Score6871
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months23
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorencePorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 45 m
€267-328
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€106-125
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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 2026-08 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

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 centre36 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorencePorto
City population360,930231,800
People per km²3,5285,599
Museums within 10 km14042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre6270
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.