VacationSelector

Nice or Porto?

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

Your match

Nice
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families 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.

NicePorto
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 13 points.13
NicePorto
Score7360
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km7052
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 1 points.1
NicePorto
Score6968
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2311,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2827
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 25 points.25
NicePorto
Score4671
Museums within 10 km27101
Museums within 2 km of centre1457
Share of museums within 2 km %5256
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Porto leads by 14 points.14
NicePorto
Score4458
Drinking venues within 4 km428900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9163
Nightclubs within 4 km2638
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 24 points.24
NicePorto
Score5733
Protected land share 50 km %247
Landscape blanket share 50 km %200
Land share of disc %6261
Park area within 2 km56 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 35 points.35
NicePorto
Score3065
Tourist attractions within 2 km4122
Park area within 2 km56 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 7 points.7
NicePorto
Score4754
Notable places within 2 km6085
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 12 points.12
NicePorto
Score6274
Price level global73.755.9
Daily budget€160€109
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 3 points.3
NicePorto
Score7471
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months33
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNicePorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
1 h 55 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

MeasureNicePorto
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
Elevation0 m104 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNicePorto
City population357,737231,800
People per km²4,9755,599
Museums within 10 km1642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre6570
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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. 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.