VacationSelector

Lisbon or Lyon?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

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

Lyon
52
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LisbonLyon
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
LisbonLyon
Score570
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2426
Coast distance2 km253 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 1 points.1
LisbonLyon
Score8079
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4961,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3140
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 15 points.15
LisbonLyon
Score7055
Museums within 10 km12453
Museums within 2 km of centre5425
Share of museums within 2 km %4447
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 7 points.7
LisbonLyon
Score6558
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7871
Nightclubs within 4 km6547
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 23 points.23
LisbonLyon
Score5633
Protected land share 50 km %116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %06
Land share of disc %54100
Park area within 2 km77 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 10 points.10
LisbonLyon
Score6959
Tourist attractions within 2 km8225
Park area within 2 km77 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
LisbonLyon
Score6654
Notable places within 2 km16986
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
LisbonLyon
Score7462
Price level global55.973.7
Daily budget€109€160
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 14 points.14
LisbonLyon
Score7864
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm43 mm to 101 mm
Dry months40
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 25 m
€212-255
LIS · 7 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
PortoOPO
1 h 0 m
€93-107
LIS · 7 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
TunisTUN
2 h 40 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
€532-732
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
7 h 35 m
€446-565
1 stop
LYS · 20 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

MeasureLisbonLyon
Official languagePortugueseFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m160 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonLyon
City population545,796519,127
People per km²5,45310,838
Museums within 10 km7842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre106148
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. 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.