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Fort Lauderdale or Porto?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

Fort LauderdalePorto
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 24 points.24
Fort LauderdalePorto
Score8460
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km752
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 23 points.23
Fort LauderdalePorto
Score4568
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3711,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1827
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 51 points.51
Fort LauderdalePorto
Score2071
Museums within 10 km14101
Museums within 2 km of centre657
Share of museums within 2 km %4356
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Porto leads by 24 points.24
Fort LauderdalePorto
Score3458
Drinking venues within 4 km259900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5663
Nightclubs within 4 km1838
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 48 points.48
Fort LauderdalePorto
Score8133
Protected land share 50 km %207
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5161
Park area within 2 km45 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 46 points.46
Fort LauderdalePorto
Score1965
Tourist attractions within 2 km2122
Park area within 2 km45 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 54 points.54
Fort LauderdalePorto
Score054
Notable places within 2 km285
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 31 points.31
Fort LauderdalePorto
Score4374
Price level global10055.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 5 points.5
Fort LauderdalePorto
Score7671
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months03
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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdalePorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
10 h 15 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFort LauderdalePorto
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m104 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdalePorto
City population182,760231,800
People per km²1,8295,599
Museums within 10 km642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2570
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.