VacationSelector

Porto or Seattle?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Seattle
52
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

PortoSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Porto and Seattle are level on 60.
PortoSeattle
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km52100
Coast distance4 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 7 points.7
PortoSeattle
Score6875
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1721,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2735
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 35 points.35
PortoSeattle
Score7136
Museums within 10 km10128
Museums within 2 km of centre5717
Share of museums within 2 km %5661
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Porto leads by 1 points.1
PortoSeattle
Score5857
Drinking venues within 4 km900873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6380
Nightclubs within 4 km3834
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 7 points.7
PortoSeattle
Score3340
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6180
Park area within 2 km30 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 19 points.19
PortoSeattle
Score6546
Tourist attractions within 2 km12217
Park area within 2 km30 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 2 points.2
PortoSeattle
Score5452
Notable places within 2 km8576
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 31 points.31
PortoSeattle
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 10 points.10
PortoSeattle
Score7161
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm15 mm to 160 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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seattle
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
Seattle
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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoSeattle
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 45 m
€106-125
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 35 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 45 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
4 h 35 m
€325-346
2 stops
SEA · 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

MeasurePortoSeattle
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 m40 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoSeattle
City population231,800737,015
People per km²5,5991,996
Museums within 10 km4227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7078
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.