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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Lisbon or Orange Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Orange Beach for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange Beach’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, Orange Beach 86: Orange Beach leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Orange Beach 40: Lisbon leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Orange Beach 7: Lisbon leads by 71 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Orange Beach 30: Lisbon leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Orange Beach 60: Lisbon leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Orange Beach 50: Lisbon leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Lisbon 62, Orange Beach 75: Orange Beach leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Lisbon 66, Orange Beach 15: Lisbon leads by 51 points.
Shopping & style. Lisbon 60, Orange Beach 25: Lisbon leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Lisbon 55, Orange Beach 38: Lisbon leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Orange Beach 32: Lisbon leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 36, Orange Beach 32: Lisbon leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Orange Beach.

Your match

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

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Orange Beach
41match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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LisbonOrange Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLisbonOrange Beach
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m4 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonOrange Beach
City population545,7968,095
People per km²5,453196
Museums within 10 km800
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.