VacationSelector

Porto or Stockholm?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

PortoStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Porto and Stockholm are level on 60.
PortoStockholm
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km5273
Coast distance4 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 8 points.8
PortoStockholm
Score6876
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1721,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2736
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 2 points.2
PortoStockholm
Score7169
Museums within 10 km10174
Museums within 2 km of centre5747
Share of museums within 2 km %5664
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
PortoStockholm
Score5864
Drinking venues within 4 km9001,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6363
Nightclubs within 4 km38106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 8 points.8
PortoStockholm
Score3341
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6177
Park area within 2 km30 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 8 points.8
PortoStockholm
Score6557
Tourist attractions within 2 km12223
Park area within 2 km30 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 25 points.25
PortoStockholm
Score5479
Notable places within 2 km85357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 17 points.17
PortoStockholm
Score7457
Price level global55.980.3
Daily budget€109€169
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 18 points.18
PortoStockholm
Score7153
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm27 mm to 66 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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoStockholm
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
3 h 25 m
€90-234
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 35 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasurePortoStockholm
Official languagePortugueseSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation104 m22 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoStockholm
City population231,800984,748
People per km²5,5995,260
Museums within 10 km42266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre7081
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.