VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Lisbon?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Hong Kong
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Lisbon
68
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

Hong KongLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 30 points.30
Hong KongLisbon
Score8757
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km6524
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongLisbon
Score8880
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3252,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3231
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 34 points.34
Hong KongLisbon
Score3670
Museums within 10 km50124
Museums within 2 km of centre1754
Share of museums within 2 km %3444
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 6 points.6
Hong KongLisbon
Score7165
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9481,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5978
Nightclubs within 4 km3765
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongLisbon
Score6456
Protected land share 50 km %811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2954
Park area within 2 km52 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 11 points.11
Hong KongLisbon
Score5869
Tourist attractions within 2 km2782
Park area within 2 km52 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 3 points.3
Hong KongLisbon
Score6966
Notable places within 2 km204169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 11 points.11
Hong KongLisbon
Score6374
Price level global7255.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
Hong KongLisbon
Score7478
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months44
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromHong KongLisbon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
MadridMAD
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
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 2026-09 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

MeasureHong KongLisbon
Official languageStandard ChinesePortuguese
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m100 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongLisbon
City population7,413,070545,796
People per km²5,453
Museums within 10 km3978
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre76106
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.