VacationSelector

Lisbon or Vancouver?

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 museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

LisbonVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 3 points.3
LisbonVancouver
Score5760
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km24109
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
LisbonVancouver
Score8074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4961,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3135
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 36 points.36
LisbonVancouver
Score7034
Museums within 10 km12427
Museums within 2 km of centre5415
Share of museums within 2 km %4456
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 8 points.8
LisbonVancouver
Score6557
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7871
Nightclubs within 4 km6544
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 21 points.21
LisbonVancouver
Score5677
Protected land share 50 km %1119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5460
Park area within 2 km77 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 16 points.16
LisbonVancouver
Score6953
Tourist attractions within 2 km8215
Park area within 2 km77 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 18 points.18
LisbonVancouver
Score6648
Notable places within 2 km16963
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 20 points.20
LisbonVancouver
Score7454
Price level global55.984
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 25 points.25
LisbonVancouver
Score7853
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 25 m
€480-569
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
€532-732
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
10 h 20 m
€629-762
1 stop
YVR · 9 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

MeasureLisbonVancouver
Official languagePortugueseFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m2 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonVancouver
City population545,796662,248
People per km²5,4535,759
Museums within 10 km7826
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre10685
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.