VacationSelector

Lisbon or Venice?

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 nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

LisbonVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 12 points.12
LisbonVenice
Score5769
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2420
Coast distance2 km4 km
Water distance2 km4 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 35 points.35
LisbonVenice
Score8045
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,496750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3110
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 2 points.2
LisbonVenice
Score7072
Museums within 10 km12457
Museums within 2 km of centre5445
Share of museums within 2 km %4479
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 30 points.30
LisbonVenice
Score6535
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7889
Nightclubs within 4 km653
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 39 points.39
LisbonVenice
Score5617
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5470
Park area within 2 km77 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
LisbonVenice
Score6957
Tourist attractions within 2 km8272
Park area within 2 km77 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 17 points.17
LisbonVenice
Score6683
Notable places within 2 km169464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
LisbonVenice
Score7468
Price level global55.964.9
Daily budget€109€155
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
LisbonVenice
Score7866
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months42
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
€120-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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

MeasureLisbonVenice
Official languagePortugueseItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m2 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonVenice
City population545,796250,369
People per km²5,453602
Museums within 10 km7852
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre10646
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. 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.