VacationSelector

Lisbon or Milan?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Milan
63
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

LisbonMilan
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
LisbonMilan
Score570
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km244
Coast distance2 km120 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 10 points.10
LisbonMilan
Score8070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4961,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3120
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 4 points.4
LisbonMilan
Score7074
Museums within 10 km12487
Museums within 2 km of centre5455
Share of museums within 2 km %4463
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Milan leads by 10 points.10
LisbonMilan
Score6575
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2252,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7843
Nightclubs within 4 km6570
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 9 points.9
LisbonMilan
Score5665
Protected land share 50 km %1130
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %54100
Park area within 2 km77 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 8 points.8
LisbonMilan
Score6977
Tourist attractions within 2 km8276
Park area within 2 km77 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 8 points.8
LisbonMilan
Score6674
Notable places within 2 km169266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
LisbonMilan
Score7468
Price level global55.964.9
Daily budget€109€155
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 14 points.14
LisbonMilan
Score7864
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Milan
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Milan
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
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
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). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonMilan
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
€120-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 0 m
€744-1049
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 40 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 40 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

MeasureLisbonMilan
Official languagePortugueseItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m138 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonMilan
City population545,7961,354,196
People per km²5,4537,453
Museums within 10 km7887
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre10679
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.