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Lisbon or Thessaloniki?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
59
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

LisbonThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 2 points.2
LisbonThessaloniki
Score5755
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km244
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 30 points.30
LisbonThessaloniki
Score8050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,496640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3115
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 21 points.21
LisbonThessaloniki
Score7049
Museums within 10 km12434
Museums within 2 km of centre5422
Share of museums within 2 km %4465
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 2 points.2
LisbonThessaloniki
Score6567
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2251,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7857
Nightclubs within 4 km6561
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 9 points.9
LisbonThessaloniki
Score5665
Protected land share 50 km %1125
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5483
Park area within 2 km77 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 28 points.28
LisbonThessaloniki
Score6941
Tourist attractions within 2 km8216
Park area within 2 km77 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 10 points.10
LisbonThessaloniki
Score6656
Notable places within 2 km16998
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon and Thessaloniki are level on 74.
LisbonThessaloniki
Score7474
Price level global55.955.8
Daily budget€109€125
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
LisbonThessaloniki
Score7872
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months49
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Thessaloniki
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
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonThessaloniki
AthensATH
4 h 5 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€222-263
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 50 m
€188-252
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€129-217
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureLisbonThessaloniki
Official languagePortugueseGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m6 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonThessaloniki
City population545,796309,617
People per km²5,45316,042
Museums within 10 km7831
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre10645
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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. 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.