VacationSelector

Lisbon or Tokyo?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Lisbon
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tokyo
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

LisbonTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 36 points.36
LisbonTokyo
Score5721
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km241
Coast distance2 km5 km
Water distance2 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 10 points.10
LisbonTokyo
Score8090
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4966,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3125
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonTokyo
Score7066
Museums within 10 km124302
Museums within 2 km of centre5452
Share of museums within 2 km %4417
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 30 points.30
LisbonTokyo
Score6595
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2256,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9563,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7844
Nightclubs within 4 km6558
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 2 points.2
LisbonTokyo
Score5658
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5485
Park area within 2 km77 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 2 points.2
LisbonTokyo
Score6971
Tourist attractions within 2 km8240
Park area within 2 km77 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km19
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
LisbonTokyo
Score6660
Notable places within 2 km169121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonTokyo
Score7470
Price level global55.962.4
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 14 points.14
LisbonTokyo
Score7864
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm57 mm to 237 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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonTokyo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 56 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
7 h 30 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 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

MeasureLisbonTokyo
Official languagePortugueseJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation100 m6 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonTokyo
City population545,79614,264,798
People per km²5,4536,501
Museums within 10 km78191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre106125
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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.