VacationSelector

Porto or Rovaniemi?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PortoRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
PortoRovaniemi
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km5213
Coast distance4 km99 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 47 points.47
PortoRovaniemi
Score6821
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,17280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2714
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 51 points.51
PortoRovaniemi
Score7120
Museums within 10 km1018
Museums within 2 km of centre577
Share of museums within 2 km %5688
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Porto leads by 54 points.54
PortoRovaniemi
Score584
Drinking venues within 4 km90052
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57042
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6381
Nightclubs within 4 km383
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 17 points.17
PortoRovaniemi
Score3316
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km30 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 44 points.44
PortoRovaniemi
Score6521
Tourist attractions within 2 km1222
Park area within 2 km30 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 29 points.29
PortoRovaniemi
Score5425
Notable places within 2 km8517
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 18 points.18
PortoRovaniemi
Score7456
Price level global55.981.6
Daily budget€109€184
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 28 points.28
PortoRovaniemi
Score7143
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months35
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
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rovaniemi
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
Rovaniemi
No sunshine record

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). Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoRovaniemi
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
2 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 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

MeasurePortoRovaniemi
Official languagePortugueseFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation104 m88 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoRovaniemi
City population231,80065,329
People per km²5,5999
Museums within 10 km426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7016
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.