VacationSelector

Lisbon or Rome?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Lisbon
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LisbonRome
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 24 points.24
LisbonRome
Score5733
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km243
Coast distance2 km24 km
Water distance2 km24 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 20 points.20
LisbonRome
Score8060
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4962,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3110
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 14 points.14
LisbonRome
Score7084
Museums within 10 km124161
Museums within 2 km of centre5479
Share of museums within 2 km %4449
Unesco sites within 50 km37
Nightlife. Rome leads by 9 points.9
LisbonRome
Score6574
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2252,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7845
Nightclubs within 4 km6585
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 14 points.14
LisbonRome
Score5670
Protected land share 50 km %1119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5478
Park area within 2 km77 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 17 points.17
LisbonRome
Score6986
Tourist attractions within 2 km82126
Park area within 2 km77 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 33 points.33
LisbonRome
Score6699
Notable places within 2 km1691,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
LisbonRome
Score7468
Price level global55.964.9
Daily budget€109€155
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 7 points.7
LisbonRome
Score7871
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm21 mm to 114 mm
Dry months43
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLisbonRome
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€84-118
FCO · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€176-218
FCO · 23 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 0 m
€744-1049
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
11 h 45 m
€893-1016
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€38-50
FCO · 23 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
11 h 15 m
€630-760
FCO · 23 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

MeasureLisbonRome
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 m21 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonRome
City population545,7962,748,109
People per km²5,4532,135
Museums within 10 km78177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km37
Distinct cuisines in the centre10665
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Lisbon or Rome somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.