VacationSelector

Lisbon or Philadelphia?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
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.

LisbonPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
LisbonPhiladelphia
Score570
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km241
Coast distance2 km13 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 3 points.3
LisbonPhiladelphia
Score8077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4961,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3135
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 10 points.10
LisbonPhiladelphia
Score7060
Museums within 10 km12489
Museums within 2 km of centre5448
Share of museums within 2 km %4454
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
LisbonPhiladelphia
Score6559
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7862
Nightclubs within 4 km6541
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 7 points.7
LisbonPhiladelphia
Score5649
Protected land share 50 km %1114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5489
Park area within 2 km77 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 16 points.16
LisbonPhiladelphia
Score6953
Tourist attractions within 2 km8216
Park area within 2 km77 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
LisbonPhiladelphia
Score6654
Notable places within 2 km16988
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 31 points.31
LisbonPhiladelphia
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 18 points.18
LisbonPhiladelphia
Score7860
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonPhiladelphia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
FunchalFNC
1 h 50 m
€132-180
LIS · 7 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 40 m
€649-673
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 0 m
€744-1049
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 25 m
€480-569
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DohaDOH
7 h 30 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 140 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

MeasureLisbonPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonPhiladelphia
City population545,7961,603,797
People per km²5,4534,339
Museums within 10 km7854
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre10675
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. 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.