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Portofino and its bay from the hillside, Portofino
PortofinoPortofino and its bay from the hillside
The Iguazu Falls in the green jungle, Puerto Iguazu
Puerto IguazuThe Iguazu Falls in the green jungle

Photos: Portofino by Michal Osmenda, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Puerto Iguazu by Muhammed Ballan, Pexels License.

Portofino or Puerto Iguazu?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Portofino for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Portofino’s own page.

Choose Puerto Iguazu for

  • prices
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Iguazu’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Portofino 60, Puerto Iguazu 5: Portofino leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Portofino 36, Puerto Iguazu 28: Portofino leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Portofino 22, Puerto Iguazu 9: Portofino leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Portofino and Puerto Iguazu are level on 14.
Nature & outdoors. Portofino 77, Puerto Iguazu 95: Puerto Iguazu leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Portofino 76, Puerto Iguazu 33: Portofino leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Portofino 33, Puerto Iguazu 55: Puerto Iguazu leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Portofino 50, Puerto Iguazu 54: Puerto Iguazu leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Portofino 29, Puerto Iguazu 17: Portofino leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Portofino 9, Puerto Iguazu 48: Puerto Iguazu leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Portofino and Puerto Iguazu are level on 7.
Wellness & relaxation. Portofino 42, Puerto Iguazu 34: Portofino leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Portofino and Puerto Iguazu.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Portofino
Best match
38match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Iguazu
33match

Wins on prices and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Portofino in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Puerto Iguazu in July

22 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
103 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Portofino's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Genova / Sestri.

Portofino has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Portofino: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (31 km from centre). Puerto Iguazu: 1991-2020 normals, Iguazu Aerodrome (17.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePortofinoPuerto Iguazu
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112117 or 911
Elevation20 m162 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)32 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsCataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)18 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortofinoPuerto Iguazu
City population35554,903
People per km²142-
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.