VacationSelector

Pisa or Porto?

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

Your match

Pisa
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

PisaPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 39 points.39
PisaPorto
Score2160
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km152
Coast distance10 km4 km
Water distance10 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 34 points.34
PisaPorto
Score3468
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3791,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km927
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 16 points.16
PisaPorto
Score5571
Museums within 10 km27101
Museums within 2 km of centre2257
Share of museums within 2 km %8156
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Porto leads by 30 points.30
PisaPorto
Score2858
Drinking venues within 4 km232900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8863
Nightclubs within 4 km338
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 6 points.6
PisaPorto
Score3933
Protected land share 50 km %97
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6561
Park area within 2 km40 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 18 points.18
PisaPorto
Score4765
Tourist attractions within 2 km20122
Park area within 2 km40 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 7 points.7
PisaPorto
Score4754
Notable places within 2 km5885
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 6 points.6
PisaPorto
Score6874
Price level global64.955.9
Daily budget€155€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 1 points.1
PisaPorto
Score7071
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months23
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
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
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPisaPorto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 4 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 15 m
no fares
BIA · 149 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
2 h 45 m
€106-125
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 45 m
€267-328
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 4 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasurePisaPorto
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
Elevation4 m104 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaPorto
City population88,737231,800
People per km²4795,599
Museums within 10 km2742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre2970
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.