VacationSelector

New York or Porto?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Porto
62
match

Wins on value for money 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.

New YorkPorto
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 4 points.4
New YorkPorto
Score6460
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1752
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 27 points.27
New YorkPorto
Score9568
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,0321,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3827
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 11 points.11
New YorkPorto
Score6071
Museums within 10 km119101
Museums within 2 km of centre3157
Share of museums within 2 km %2656
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. New York leads by 31 points.31
New YorkPorto
Score8958
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4863
Nightclubs within 4 km19238
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 6 points.6
New YorkPorto
Score3933
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6961
Park area within 2 km134 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 7 points.7
New YorkPorto
Score7265
Tourist attractions within 2 km37122
Park area within 2 km134 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. New York leads by 20 points.20
New YorkPorto
Score7454
Notable places within 2 km26885
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 31 points.31
New YorkPorto
Score4374
Price level global10055.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 13 points.13
New YorkPorto
Score5871
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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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J
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Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
8 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
7 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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 2026-08 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

MeasureNew YorkPorto
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m104 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkPorto
City population8,804,190231,800
People per km²7,2565,599
Museums within 10 km15742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre13270
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.