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Porto or Valencia?

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, 2 points apart

Porto
62
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Valencia
64
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

PortoValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 7 points.7
PortoValencia
Score6067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km5212
Coast distance4 km3 km
Water distance3 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 10 points.10
PortoValencia
Score6878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1721,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2733
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 16 points.16
PortoValencia
Score7155
Museums within 10 km10159
Museums within 2 km of centre5726
Share of museums within 2 km %5644
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 12 points.12
PortoValencia
Score5870
Drinking venues within 4 km9001,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6363
Nightclubs within 4 km38108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 20 points.20
PortoValencia
Score3353
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6164
Park area within 2 km30 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 23 points.23
PortoValencia
Score6542
Tourist attractions within 2 km12212
Park area within 2 km30 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 2 points.2
PortoValencia
Score5452
Notable places within 2 km8578
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 3 points.3
PortoValencia
Score7471
Price level global55.960.8
Daily budget€109€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 13 points.13
PortoValencia
Score7184
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months38
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoValencia
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€56-140
VLC · 9 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€127-139
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 45 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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

MeasurePortoValencia
Official languagePortugueseSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation104 m15 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoValencia
City population231,800840,792
People per km²5,5996,242
Museums within 10 km4246
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre7092
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.