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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License.

Havana or Lisbon?

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 Havana for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

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

Choose Lisbon for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Lisbon’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. Havana 64, Lisbon 50: Havana leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Lisbon 78: Lisbon leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Lisbon 82: Lisbon leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Lisbon 62: Lisbon leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Lisbon 66: Lisbon leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Lisbon 60: Lisbon leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Lisbon 55: Havana leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Lisbon 60: Havana leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Lisbon 36: Lisbon leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Lisbon.

Your match

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

Havana
47match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °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

Havana 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. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaLisbon
Official languageSpanishPortuguese
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105112
Elevation59 m100 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaLisbon
City population2,492,618545,796
People per km²3,4235,453
Museums within 10 km1280
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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). 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). 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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.