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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Lisbon or Sedona?

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
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Lisbon leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Sedona 33: Lisbon leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Sedona 20: Lisbon leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Sedona 8: Lisbon leads by 67 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Sedona 55: Lisbon leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Lisbon 62, Sedona 42: Lisbon leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Lisbon 66, Sedona 22: Lisbon leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Lisbon 60, Sedona 34: Lisbon leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Lisbon 55, Sedona 18: Lisbon leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Sedona 13: Lisbon leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 36, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 46 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Sedona.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLisbonSedona
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m1,319 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonSedona
City population545,7969,684
People per km²5,453195
Museums within 10 km800
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.