VacationSelector

Porto or Shanghai?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Shanghai
54
match

Wins on good for families 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.

PortoShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 43 points.43
PortoShanghai
Score6017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km520
Coast distance4 km18 km
Water distance3 km18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 26 points.26
PortoShanghai
Score7145
Museums within 10 km101108
Museums within 2 km of centre5728
Share of museums within 2 km %5626
Unesco sites within 50 km30
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Shanghai leads by 9 points.9
PortoShanghai
Score3342
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6182
Park area within 2 km30 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 16 points.16
PortoShanghai
Score6581
Tourist attractions within 2 km12286
Park area within 2 km30 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km110
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 3 points.3
PortoShanghai
Score5451
Notable places within 2 km8573
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 5 points.5
PortoShanghai
Score7479
Price level global55.949
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 6 points.6
PortoShanghai
Score7165
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm43 mm to 216 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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4

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). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoShanghai
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
HGH · 149 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 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

MeasurePortoShanghai
Official languagePortuguesePutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation104 m4 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoShanghai
City population231,80024,870,895
People per km²5,5993,922
Museums within 10 km4244
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7064
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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.