VacationSelector

Lyon or Macau?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, Lyon
Lyon

Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
Macau

Photo: tian Jin, Pexels License

Your match

Lyon
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Macau
46
match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

LyonMacau
Beaches & swimming. Macau leads by 12 points.12
Food & drink. Lyon leads by 7 points.7
Culture & sights. Lyon leads by 15 points.15
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 18 points.18
Nature & outdoors. Lyon leads by 59 points.59
Day trips. Lyon leads by 25 points.25
Good for families. Lyon leads by 14 points.14
Getting around. Lyon leads by 17 points.17
Shopping & style. Lyon and Macau are level on 58.
Affordability. Macau leads by 2 points.2
Live music & performing arts. Lyon leads by 32 points.32
Wellness & relaxation. Lyon and Macau are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lyon and Macau.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyLyonMacau
Daytime high28 °C32 °C
Night-time low17 °C26 °C
Rainfall in the month66 mm281 mm
Sunshine9 hours a day7 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea29 °C
Daylight15 hours a day13 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
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A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Macau
19
19
22
25
29
31
32
32
31
29
25
20
Sea temperature, °C
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Macau
19
19
20
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Macau
34
42
78
160
285
369
281
338
233
71
38
32
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Macau
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2
Macau
4
3
3
3
4
5
7
6
6
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonMacau
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
2 h 10 m
€159-193
MFM · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
3 h 0 m
€181-203
1 stop
MFM · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€79-99
LYS · 20 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 41 km
Abu DhabiAUH
6 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
7 h 45 m
€690-962
2 stops
HKG · 41 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureLyonMacau
Official languageFrenchPortuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pataca (MOP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzFGM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation160 m22 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre141 non-stop destinationsMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLyonMacau
City population519,127682,100
People per km²10,8385,916
Museums within 10 km4228
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.