VacationSelector

Milan 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, 1 point apart

Milan
63
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Porto
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

MilanPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
MilanPorto
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km452
Coast distance120 km4 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Milan leads by 2 points.2
MilanPorto
Score7068
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9911,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2027
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 3 points.3
MilanPorto
Score7471
Museums within 10 km87101
Museums within 2 km of centre5557
Share of museums within 2 km %6356
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Milan leads by 17 points.17
MilanPorto
Score7558
Drinking venues within 4 km2,215900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre961570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4363
Nightclubs within 4 km7038
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 32 points.32
MilanPorto
Score6533
Protected land share 50 km %307
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km102 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 12 points.12
MilanPorto
Score7765
Tourist attractions within 2 km76122
Park area within 2 km102 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 20 points.20
MilanPorto
Score7454
Notable places within 2 km26685
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 6 points.6
MilanPorto
Score6874
Price level global64.955.9
Daily budget€155€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 7 points.7
MilanPorto
Score6471
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28.6 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Milan
No coastline within reach
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Milan
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
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
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. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMilanPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 40 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
55 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 40 km
10 h 15 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

MeasureMilanPorto
Official languageItalianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation138 m104 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMilanPorto
City population1,354,196231,800
People per km²7,4535,599
Museums within 10 km8742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre7970
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.