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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Lisbon or Nice?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Lisbon for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Lisbon’s own page.

Choose Nice for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Lisbon 50, Nice 75: Nice leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Nice 66: Lisbon leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Nice 64: Lisbon leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Nice 47: Lisbon leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Nice 80: Nice leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Nice 87: Nice leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Lisbon 62, Nice 57: Lisbon leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Lisbon 66, Nice 74: Nice leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Lisbon 60, Nice 55: Lisbon leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Lisbon 55, Nice 35: Lisbon leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Nice 45: Lisbon leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 36, Nice 40: Nice leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Nice.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Nice
60match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLisbonNice
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 m0 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonNice
City population545,796357,737
People per km²5,4534,975
Museums within 10 km8017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.