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The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji
Portofino and its bay from the hillside, Portofino
PortofinoPortofino and its bay from the hillside

Photos: Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Portofino by Michal Osmenda, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Fukuoka or Portofino?

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 Fukuoka for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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

Choose Portofino for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Portofino’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. Fukuoka 50, Portofino 60: Portofino leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Fukuoka 82, Portofino 36: Fukuoka leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Fukuoka 50, Portofino 22: Fukuoka leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Fukuoka 60, Portofino 14: Fukuoka leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fukuoka 62, Portofino 77: Portofino leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Fukuoka 84, Portofino 76: Fukuoka leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Fukuoka 78, Portofino 33: Fukuoka leads by 45 points.
Getting around. Fukuoka 82, Portofino 50: Fukuoka leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Fukuoka 65, Portofino 29: Fukuoka leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Fukuoka 58, Portofino 9: Fukuoka leads by 49 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fukuoka 45, Portofino 7: Fukuoka leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fukuoka 60, Portofino 42: Fukuoka leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fukuoka and Portofino.

Your match

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

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Portofino
38match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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.

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Portofino in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °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

Portofino's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Genova / Sestri.

Portofino 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre). Portofino: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (31 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFukuokaPortofino
Official languageJapaneseItalian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation8 m20 m
Main airportFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)32 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFukuokaPortofino
City population1,603,043355
People per km²4,715142
Museums within 10 km2314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 months

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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. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.