VacationSelector

Lisbon or Miami?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

LisbonMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 38 points.38
LisbonMiami
Score5795
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km2420
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 15 points.15
LisbonMiami
Score8065
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,496898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3129
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 47 points.47
LisbonMiami
Score7023
Museums within 10 km12428
Museums within 2 km of centre546
Share of museums within 2 km %4421
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 15 points.15
LisbonMiami
Score6550
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7853
Nightclubs within 4 km6563
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 16 points.16
LisbonMiami
Score5672
Protected land share 50 km %1116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5448
Park area within 2 km77 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 25 points.25
LisbonMiami
Score6944
Tourist attractions within 2 km8214
Park area within 2 km77 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 24 points.24
LisbonMiami
Score6642
Notable places within 2 km16945
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 31 points.31
LisbonMiami
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonMiami
Score7874
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Miami
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 25 m
€480-569
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 0 m
€744-1049
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€127-180
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 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

MeasureLisbonMiami
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m2 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonMiami
City population545,796442,241
People per km²5,4533,046
Museums within 10 km7817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre10639
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.