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Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira
The Iguazu Falls in the green jungle, Puerto Iguazu
Puerto IguazuThe Iguazu Falls in the green jungle

Photos: Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Puerto Iguazu by Muhammed Ballan, Pexels License.

Porto or Puerto Iguazu?

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 Porto for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Puerto Iguazu for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Iguazu’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. Porto 40, Puerto Iguazu 5: Porto leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Porto 70, Puerto Iguazu 28: Porto leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Porto 68, Puerto Iguazu 9: Porto leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Porto 65, Puerto Iguazu 14: Porto leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Porto 64, Puerto Iguazu 95: Puerto Iguazu leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Porto 79, Puerto Iguazu 33: Porto leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Porto 52, Puerto Iguazu 55: Puerto Iguazu leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Porto 66, Puerto Iguazu 54: Porto leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Porto 52, Puerto Iguazu 17: Porto leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Porto 62, Puerto Iguazu 48: Porto leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Porto 52, Puerto Iguazu 7: Porto leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Porto and Puerto Iguazu are level on 34.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Porto and Puerto Iguazu.

Your match

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

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Puerto Iguazu
33match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Puerto Iguazu in July

22 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
103 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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PortoPuerto Iguazu

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Puerto Iguazu: 1991-2020 normals, Iguazu Aerodrome (17.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePortoPuerto Iguazu
Official languagePortugueseSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112117 or 911
Elevation104 m162 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinationsCataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)18 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoPuerto Iguazu
City population273,47654,903
People per km²6,606-
Museums within 10 km420
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.