VacationSelector

Lyon or Porto?

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

Your match

Lyon
52
match

Wins on places to eat with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

LyonPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
LyonPorto
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2652
Coast distance253 km4 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 11 points.11
LyonPorto
Score7968
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6911,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4027
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 16 points.16
LyonPorto
Score5571
Museums within 10 km53101
Museums within 2 km of centre2557
Share of museums within 2 km %4756
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Lyon and Porto are level on 58.
LyonPorto
Score5858
Drinking venues within 4 km866900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre611570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7163
Nightclubs within 4 km4738
Nature & day trips. Lyon and Porto are level on 33.
LyonPorto
Score3333
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %60
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km120 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 6 points.6
LyonPorto
Score5965
Tourist attractions within 2 km25122
Park area within 2 km120 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Lyon and Porto are level on 54.
LyonPorto
Score5454
Notable places within 2 km8685
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 12 points.12
LyonPorto
Score6274
Price level global73.755.9
Daily budget€160€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 7 points.7
LyonPorto
Score6471
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 101 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months03
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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
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. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 45 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 20 m
€109-165
LYS · 20 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
4 h 20 m
€235-292
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
€105-126
LYS · 20 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 35 m
€446-565
1 stop
LYS · 20 km
6 h 45 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLyonPorto
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation160 m104 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonPorto
City population519,127231,800
People per km²10,8385,599
Museums within 10 km4242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre14870
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). 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.

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.