VacationSelector

Lisbon or York?

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 beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

LisbonYork
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
LisbonYork
Score570
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km242
Coast distance2 km50 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 26 points.26
LisbonYork
Score8054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,496361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3131
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 24 points.24
LisbonYork
Score7046
Museums within 10 km12418
Museums within 2 km of centre5416
Share of museums within 2 km %4489
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 22 points.22
LisbonYork
Score6543
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7878
Nightclubs within 4 km6514
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 23 points.23
LisbonYork
Score5633
Protected land share 50 km %1117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %5495
Park area within 2 km77 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 26 points.26
LisbonYork
Score6943
Tourist attractions within 2 km8213
Park area within 2 km77 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 27 points.27
LisbonYork
Score6639
Notable places within 2 km16937
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 20 points.20
LisbonYork
Score7454
Price level global55.984.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 22 points.22
LisbonYork
Score7856
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months41
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonYork
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
FunchalFNC
1 h 50 m
€132-180
LIS · 7 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 25 m
€171-195
LIS · 7 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 15 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 25 m
€480-569
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AgadirAGA
1 h 45 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureLisbonYork
Official languagePortugueseEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation100 m25 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonYork
City population545,796208,400
People per km²5,453766
Museums within 10 km7824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre10654
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.