VacationSelector

Helsinki or Lisbon?

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

Your match

Helsinki
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

HelsinkiLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Helsinki leads by 3 points.3
HelsinkiLisbon
Score6057
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km15724
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 9 points.9
HelsinkiLisbon
Score7180
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0052,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3831
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 21 points.21
HelsinkiLisbon
Score4970
Museums within 10 km57124
Museums within 2 km of centre2354
Share of museums within 2 km %4044
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 9 points.9
HelsinkiLisbon
Score5665
Drinking venues within 4 km8071,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre607956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km4065
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 14 points.14
HelsinkiLisbon
Score4256
Protected land share 50 km %311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5354
Park area within 2 km185 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 11 points.11
HelsinkiLisbon
Score5869
Tourist attractions within 2 km2082
Park area within 2 km185 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 7 points.7
HelsinkiLisbon
Score7366
Notable places within 2 km257169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 18 points.18
HelsinkiLisbon
Score5674
Price level global81.655.9
Daily budget€184€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 30 points.30
HelsinkiLisbon
Score4878
Monthly daytime high-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 84 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months34
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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F
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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
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. Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHelsinkiLisbon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
MadridMAD
4 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 45 m
€212-264
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
8 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
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

MeasureHelsinkiLisbon
Official languageFinnish, SwedishPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m100 m
Main airportHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHelsinkiLisbon
City population694,392545,796
People per km²3,2395,453
Museums within 10 km7478
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre78106
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). 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. 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.