VacationSelector

Porto or San Francisco?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Porto
62
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

San Francisco
62
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.

PortoSan Francisco
Beaches & swimming. Porto and San Francisco are level on 60.
PortoSan Francisco
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km5244
Coast distance4 km2 km
Water distance3 km2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 15 points.15
PortoSan Francisco
Score6883
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1722,359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2739
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 27 points.27
PortoSan Francisco
Score7144
Museums within 10 km10157
Museums within 2 km of centre5729
Share of museums within 2 km %5651
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 10 points.10
PortoSan Francisco
Score5868
Drinking venues within 4 km9001,434
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570928
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6365
Nightclubs within 4 km3897
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 27 points.27
PortoSan Francisco
Score3360
Protected land share 50 km %717
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %6157
Park area within 2 km30 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 8 points.8
PortoSan Francisco
Score6557
Tourist attractions within 2 km12248
Park area within 2 km30 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 9 points.9
PortoSan Francisco
Score5463
Notable places within 2 km85147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 31 points.31
PortoSan Francisco
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 7 points.7
PortoSan Francisco
Score7178
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C14 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm0 mm to 105 mm
Dry months37
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
San Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
San Francisco
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). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoSan Francisco
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 45 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 18 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

MeasurePortoSan Francisco
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation104 m16 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoSan Francisco
City population231,800873,965
People per km²5,5991,455
Museums within 10 km4250
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre70108
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.