VacationSelector

Porto or West Palm Beach?

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.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

PortoWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 28 points.28
PortoWest Palm Beach
Score6088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km5210
Coast distance4 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 31 points.31
PortoWest Palm Beach
Score6837
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,172262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2714
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 54 points.54
PortoWest Palm Beach
Score7117
Museums within 10 km1015
Museums within 2 km of centre573
Share of museums within 2 km %5660
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Porto leads by 38 points.38
PortoWest Palm Beach
Score5820
Drinking venues within 4 km900132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57090
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6368
Nightclubs within 4 km3810
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 36 points.36
PortoWest Palm Beach
Score3369
Protected land share 50 km %715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6145
Park area within 2 km30 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 44 points.44
PortoWest Palm Beach
Score6521
Tourist attractions within 2 km1223
Park area within 2 km30 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 42 points.42
PortoWest Palm Beach
Score5412
Notable places within 2 km858
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 31 points.31
PortoWest Palm Beach
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.4
PortoWest Palm Beach
Score7175
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoWest Palm Beach
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasurePortoWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoWest Palm Beach
City population231,800117,415
People per km²5,599786
Museums within 10 km424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7018
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.