VacationSelector

Porto or Salzburg?

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.

Salzburg
42
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.

PortoSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
PortoSalzburg
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km529
Coast distance4 km653 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 19 points.19
PortoSalzburg
Score6849
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,172348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2723
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 11 points.11
PortoSalzburg
Score7160
Museums within 10 km10142
Museums within 2 km of centre5727
Share of museums within 2 km %5664
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Porto leads by 22 points.22
PortoSalzburg
Score5836
Drinking venues within 4 km900294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6382
Nightclubs within 4 km3816
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 6 points.6
PortoSalzburg
Score3327
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km30 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 17 points.17
PortoSalzburg
Score6548
Tourist attractions within 2 km12217
Park area within 2 km30 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 8 points.8
PortoSalzburg
Score5446
Notable places within 2 km8554
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 15 points.15
PortoSalzburg
Score7459
Price level global55.976.9
Daily budget€109€160
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 17 points.17
PortoSalzburg
Score7154
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoSalzburg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasurePortoSalzburg
Official languagePortugueseGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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
Elevation104 m424 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoSalzburg
City population231,800155,021
People per km²5,5992,360
Museums within 10 km4238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre7050
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.