VacationSelector

Porto or Rome?

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

Your match

Porto
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips 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.

PortoRome
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 27 points.27
PortoRome
Score6033
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km523
Coast distance4 km24 km
Water distance3 km24 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 8 points.8
PortoRome
Score6860
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1722,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2710
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 13 points.13
PortoRome
Score7184
Museums within 10 km101161
Museums within 2 km of centre5779
Share of museums within 2 km %5649
Unesco sites within 50 km37
Nightlife. Rome leads by 16 points.16
PortoRome
Score5874
Drinking venues within 4 km9002,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6345
Nightclubs within 4 km3885
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 37 points.37
PortoRome
Score3370
Protected land share 50 km %719
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6178
Park area within 2 km30 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 21 points.21
PortoRome
Score6586
Tourist attractions within 2 km122126
Park area within 2 km30 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 45 points.45
PortoRome
Score5499
Notable places within 2 km851,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 6 points.6
PortoRome
Score7468
Price level global55.964.9
Daily budget€109€155
Year-round weather. Porto and Rome are level on 71.
PortoRome
Score7171
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm21 mm to 114 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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoRome
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€91-168
FCO · 23 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€84-118
FCO · 23 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
11 h 45 m
€893-1016
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
Addis AbabaADD
7 h 35 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
FCO · 23 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

MeasurePortoRome
Official languagePortugueseItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation104 m21 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoRome
City population231,8002,748,109
People per km²5,5992,135
Museums within 10 km42177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km37
Distinct cuisines in the centre7065
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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.