Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.
Liverpool or Porto?
Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.
Choose Liverpool for
- live music and the arts
- families
- getting around
What lies behind each score is written up on Liverpool’s own page.
Choose Porto for
- food and drink
- beaches
- day trips
What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Liverpool and Porto.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on live music and the arts and families with your weighting.
Wins on food and drink and beaches with your weighting.
What matters to you?
When should you go?
Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.
Liverpool in July
Porto in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
Where the figures come from
Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.
Liverpool has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.
Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).
Before you go
| Measure | Liverpool | Porto |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | English | Portuguese |
| Currency | Pound Sterling (GBP) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | G230 V, 50 Hz | CF230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Left | Right |
| Time zone | UTC, UTC+1 in summer | UTC, UTC+1 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 or 999 | 112 |
| Elevation | 70 m | 104 m |
| Main airport | Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinations | Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 8 days | 14 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Liverpool | Porto |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 513,441 | 273,476 |
| People per km² | 4,592 | 6,606 |
| Museums within 10 km | 31 | 42 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 2 | 3 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | None | None |
Where else could you go?
Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Liverpool or Porto somewhere new.