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The Sanctuary of Truth by the sea, Pattaya
PattayaThe Sanctuary of Truth by the sea
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Pattaya by Matrix, Pexels License; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Pattaya or Porto?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Pattaya for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Pattaya’s own page.

Choose Porto for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Pattaya 66, Porto 40: Pattaya leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Pattaya 58, Porto 70: Porto leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Pattaya 30, Porto 68: Porto leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Pattaya 76, Porto 65: Pattaya leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Pattaya 40, Porto 64: Porto leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Pattaya 52, Porto 79: Porto leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Pattaya 55, Porto 52: Pattaya leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Pattaya 36, Porto 66: Porto leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Pattaya 42, Porto 52: Porto leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Pattaya 84, Porto 62: Pattaya leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Pattaya 30, Porto 52: Porto leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Pattaya 58, Porto 34: Pattaya leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Pattaya and Porto.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Pattaya
52match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Pattaya in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Pattaya's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Sattahip.

Pattaya has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Pattaya's sunshine is measured 86 km from the centre, at Bangna Agromet / Ban Khlong Samrong.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Pattaya: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1961-1990, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sattahip (31.2 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePattayaPorto
Official languageThaiPortuguese
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation35 m104 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)83 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePattayaPorto
City population119,532273,476
People per km²-6,606
Museums within 10 km042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.