VacationSelector

Porto or Rotterdam?

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

Your match

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

PortoRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 23 points.23
PortoRotterdam
Score6037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km5222
Coast distance4 km24 km
Water distance3 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
PortoRotterdam
Score6872
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,172862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2746
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 11 points.11
PortoRotterdam
Score7160
Museums within 10 km10141
Museums within 2 km of centre5720
Share of museums within 2 km %5649
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Porto leads by 9 points.9
PortoRotterdam
Score5849
Drinking venues within 4 km900542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6370
Nightclubs within 4 km3840
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 9 points.9
PortoRotterdam
Score3342
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6179
Park area within 2 km30 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 3 points.3
PortoRotterdam
Score6562
Tourist attractions within 2 km12227
Park area within 2 km30 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 3 points.3
PortoRotterdam
Score5451
Notable places within 2 km8574
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 16 points.16
PortoRotterdam
Score7458
Price level global55.979.2
Daily budget€109€181
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 15 points.15
PortoRotterdam
Score7156
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasurePortoRotterdam
Official languagePortugueseDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation104 m10 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoRotterdam
City population231,800664,311
People per km²5,5992,080
Museums within 10 km4240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre7077
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.