VacationSelector

Porto or Tampa?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

PortoTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 15 points.15
PortoTampa
Score6075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km5210
Coast distance4 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 14 points.14
PortoTampa
Score6854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,172359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2731
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 44 points.44
PortoTampa
Score7127
Museums within 10 km10113
Museums within 2 km of centre5710
Share of museums within 2 km %5677
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Porto leads by 19 points.19
PortoTampa
Score5839
Drinking venues within 4 km900324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6370
Nightclubs within 4 km3826
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 3 points.3
PortoTampa
Score3330
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6172
Park area within 2 km30 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 35 points.35
PortoTampa
Score6530
Tourist attractions within 2 km1223
Park area within 2 km30 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 33 points.33
PortoTampa
Score5421
Notable places within 2 km8513
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 31 points.31
PortoTampa
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 4 points.4
PortoTampa
Score7175
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months31
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoTampa
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 35 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 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

MeasurePortoTampa
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation104 m30 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoTampa
City population231,800384,959
People per km²5,599848
Museums within 10 km426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7047
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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.