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Lisbon or Ubud?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
Lisbon

Photo: Riccardo Toso, Pexels License

Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
Ubud

Photo: Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Ubud
54
match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

LisbonUbud
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 10 points.10
Food & drink. Lisbon leads by 20 points.20
Culture & sights. Lisbon leads by 20 points.20
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 61 points.61
Nature & outdoors. Ubud leads by 1 points.1
Day trips. Lisbon leads by 14 points.14
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 18 points.18
Getting around. Lisbon leads by 56 points.56
Shopping & style. Lisbon leads by 10 points.10
Affordability. Ubud leads by 27 points.27
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon leads by 5 points.5
Wellness & relaxation. Ubud leads by 60 points.60
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Ubud.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyLisbonUbud
Daytime high28 °C29 °C
Night-time low18 °C24 °C
Rainfall in the month3 mm27 mm
Sunshine12 hours a day9 hours a day
Sea temperature18 °C27 °C
Daylight15 hours a day12 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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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
Ubud
31
31
31
31
31
30
29
29
30
31
32
31
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Ubud
29
29
29
29
28
28
27
26
27
27
28
29
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Ubud
396
289
222
125
76
38
27
12
30
74
132
295
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Ubud
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Ubud
7
6
7
8
9
8
9
9
9
9
8
6

Where the figures come from

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonUbud
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
15 h 0 m
€615-646
DPS · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
14 h 45 m
€655-1139
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
9 h 30 m
€461-573
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 25 m
€212-255
LIS · 7 km
12 h 50 m
€633-726
DPS · 29 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
6 h 50 m
€317-331
DPS · 29 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
12 h 0 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
7 h 5 m
€286-290
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
Abu DhabiAUH
7 h 50 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
9 h 30 m
€560-729
DPS · 29 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
13 h 40 m
€782-910
3 stops
DPS · 29 km
DohaDOH
7 h 30 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
9 h 55 m
€774-911
2 stops
DPS · 29 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

MeasureLisbonUbud
Official languagePortugueseIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m210 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonUbud
City population545,796-
People per km²5,453-
Museums within 10 km7814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.