VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Porto?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Porto
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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 KongPorto
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 27 points.27
Hong KongPorto
Score8760
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km6552
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 20 points.20
Hong KongPorto
Score8868
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3251,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3227
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 35 points.35
Hong KongPorto
Score3671
Museums within 10 km50101
Museums within 2 km of centre1757
Share of museums within 2 km %3456
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongPorto
Score7158
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5963
Nightclubs within 4 km3738
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 31 points.31
Hong KongPorto
Score6433
Protected land share 50 km %87
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2961
Park area within 2 km52 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 7 points.7
Hong KongPorto
Score5865
Tourist attractions within 2 km27122
Park area within 2 km52 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 15 points.15
Hong KongPorto
Score6954
Notable places within 2 km20485
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 11 points.11
Hong KongPorto
Score6374
Price level global7255.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 3 points.3
Hong KongPorto
Score7471
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months43
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromHong KongPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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 KongPorto
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 m104 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongPorto
City population7,413,070231,800
People per km²5,599
Museums within 10 km3942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7670
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.