VacationSelector

London or Porto?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

London
64
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Porto
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

LondonPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
LondonPorto
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4752
Coast distance43 km4 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. London leads by 20 points.20
LondonPorto
Score8868
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3171,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4027
Museums & heritage. London leads by 1 points.1
LondonPorto
Score7271
Museums within 10 km148101
Museums within 2 km of centre4957
Share of museums within 2 km %3356
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. London leads by 37 points.37
LondonPorto
Score9558
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4663
Nightclubs within 4 km31238
Nature & day trips. London leads by 7 points.7
LondonPorto
Score4033
Protected land share 50 km %167
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9761
Park area within 2 km84 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 10 points.10
LondonPorto
Score7565
Tourist attractions within 2 km85122
Park area within 2 km84 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. London leads by 35 points.35
LondonPorto
Score8954
Notable places within 2 km64985
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 20 points.20
LondonPorto
Score5474
Price level global84.955.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 8 points.8
LondonPorto
Score6371
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months13
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLondonPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 35 m
€184-208
LHR · 23 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
CancunCUN
10 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasureLondonPorto
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m104 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonPorto
City population8,799,728231,800
People per km²5,5985,599
Museums within 10 km21542
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre11670
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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.