VacationSelector

Hamburg or Lisbon?

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

Your match

Hamburg
53
match

Wins on nightlife with your weighting.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

HamburgLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
HamburgLisbon
Score057
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1624
Coast distance22 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 7 points.7
HamburgLisbon
Score7380
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1502,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3831
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 10 points.10
HamburgLisbon
Score6070
Museums within 10 km94124
Museums within 2 km of centre5054
Share of museums within 2 km %5344
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 3 points.3
HamburgLisbon
Score6865
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3391,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre834956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6278
Nightclubs within 4 km11965
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 16 points.16
HamburgLisbon
Score4056
Protected land share 50 km %1411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %9954
Park area within 2 km89 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 9 points.9
HamburgLisbon
Score6069
Tourist attractions within 2 km4082
Park area within 2 km89 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 7 points.7
HamburgLisbon
Score5966
Notable places within 2 km118169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 14 points.14
HamburgLisbon
Score6074
Price level global75.955.9
Daily budget€163€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 23 points.23
HamburgLisbon
Score5578
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months14
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgLisbon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€222-263
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€193
HAM · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
4 h 25 m
€212-255
LIS · 7 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
2 h 40 m
€227-271
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 km
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 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

MeasureHamburgLisbon
Official languageGermanPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m100 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgLisbon
City population1,910,160545,796
People per km²2,5305,453
Museums within 10 km7778
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre83106
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.