Portugal · data-backed guide
Ten Portuguese cities, judged by open data, not adjectives.
Porto, 1 of 10
Porto, in the month it works. Best month: July. Mean 19.9 °C, 0.4 mm of rain a day.
Sintra, in the month it works. Best month: June. Mean 18.9 °C, 0.4 mm of rain a day.
Faro, in the month it works. Best month: June. Mean 21.4 °C, 0.2 mm of rain a day.
Lagos, in the month it works. Best month: June. Mean 19.9 °C, 0.3 mm of rain a day.
Coimbra, in the month it works. Best month: June. Mean 19.4 °C, 0.8 mm of rain a day.
Braga, in the month it works. Best month: June. Mean 18.3 °C, 1.3 mm of rain a day.
Evora, in the month it works. Best month: June. Mean 22.5 °C, 0.4 mm of rain a day.
Cascais, in the month it works. Best month: June. Mean 18.9 °C, 0.4 mm of rain a day.
Funchal, in the month it works. Best month: January. Mean 16.6 °C, 1.2 mm of rain a day.
Aveiro, in the month it works. Best month: June. Mean 19.1 °C, 0.9 mm of rain a day.
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Pick a month. The cities are ranked by our best-time score for it: mean temperature, rain, and how full INE says the city is.
- 01FunchalMadeira16.6 °C1.2 mm rain a day0.38Best pick for January
- 02LagosAlgarve13.8 °C1.8 mm rain a day0.37
- 03FaroAlgarve12.9 °C1.6 mm rain a day0.27
- 04CascaisLisbon region12.9 °C2.1 mm rain a day0.24
- 05SintraLisbon region11.6 °C2.3 mm rain a day0.15
- 06EvoraAlentejo8.8 °C1.9 mm rain a day0.04
- 07AveiroCentro10.2 °C4.1 mm rain a day0.04
- 08PortoNorte10.5 °C4.4 mm rain a day0.02
- 09CoimbraCentro7.0 °C3.5 mm rain a day0.00
- 10BragaNorte6.1 °C4.4 mm rain a day0.00
- 01LagosAlgarve13.6 °C1.9 mm rain a day0.32Best pick for February
- 02FunchalMadeira16.1 °C1.6 mm rain a day0.31
- 03CascaisLisbon region12.8 °C1.8 mm rain a day0.24
- 04FaroAlgarve12.9 °C1.9 mm rain a day0.23
- 05SintraLisbon region11.7 °C1.9 mm rain a day0.18
- 06EvoraAlentejo9.6 °C1.8 mm rain a day0.08
- 07AveiroCentro10.5 °C3.2 mm rain a day0.08
- 08PortoNorte10.6 °C3.4 mm rain a day0.06
- 09CoimbraCentro7.7 °C2.9 mm rain a day0.00
- 10BragaNorte6.5 °C3.3 mm rain a day0.00
- 01FunchalMadeira16.3 °C1.4 mm rain a day0.29Best pick for March
- 02LagosAlgarve14.5 °C2.3 mm rain a day0.28
- 03CascaisLisbon region13.8 °C1.9 mm rain a day0.24
- 04FaroAlgarve14.2 °C2.2 mm rain a day0.23
- 05SintraLisbon region13.1 °C2.0 mm rain a day0.20
- 06EvoraAlentejo12.1 °C2.0 mm rain a day0.17
- 07AveiroCentro12.2 °C3.1 mm rain a day0.11
- 08PortoNorte12.1 °C3.6 mm rain a day0.07
- 09CoimbraCentro9.9 °C3.0 mm rain a day0.05
- 10BragaNorte8.8 °C3.8 mm rain a day0.01
- 01FunchalMadeira16.9 °C1.0 mm rain a day0.33Best pick for April
- 02LagosAlgarve15.8 °C2.4 mm rain a day0.28
- 03FaroAlgarve15.8 °C2.1 mm rain a day0.26
- 04CascaisLisbon region15.0 °C1.8 mm rain a day0.26
- 05EvoraAlentejo14.6 °C1.9 mm rain a day0.23
- 06SintraLisbon region14.6 °C1.9 mm rain a day0.22
- 07AveiroCentro13.9 °C2.9 mm rain a day0.15
- 08PortoNorte13.7 °C3.0 mm rain a day0.11
- 09CoimbraCentro12.3 °C2.7 mm rain a day0.10
- 10BragaNorte11.1 °C3.0 mm rain a day0.07
- 01LagosAlgarve17.7 °C1.2 mm rain a day0.41Best pick for May
- 02FaroAlgarve18.4 °C1.1 mm rain a day0.38
- 03CascaisLisbon region16.9 °C1.0 mm rain a day0.36
- 04EvoraAlentejo18.3 °C1.1 mm rain a day0.35
- 05SintraLisbon region16.7 °C1.1 mm rain a day0.34
- 06FunchalMadeira18.2 °C0.6 mm rain a day0.33
- 07AveiroCentro16.4 °C1.9 mm rain a day0.31
- 08PortoNorte15.9 °C1.9 mm rain a day0.20
- 09CoimbraCentro15.6 °C1.7 mm rain a day0.20
- 10BragaNorte14.3 °C2.0 mm rain a day0.19
- 01FaroAlgarve21.4 °C0.2 mm rain a day0.45Best pick for June
- 02LagosAlgarve19.9 °C0.3 mm rain a day0.45
- 03EvoraAlentejo22.5 °C0.4 mm rain a day0.45
- 04AveiroCentro19.1 °C0.9 mm rain a day0.45
- 05SintraLisbon region18.9 °C0.4 mm rain a day0.42
- 06CascaisLisbon region18.9 °C0.4 mm rain a day0.42
- 07CoimbraCentro19.4 °C0.8 mm rain a day0.37
- 08BragaNorte18.3 °C1.3 mm rain a day0.36
- 09FunchalMadeira20.2 °C0.3 mm rain a day0.36
- 10PortoNorte18.4 °C1.1 mm rain a day0.33
- 01FaroAlgarve23.4 °C0.0 mm rain a day0.41Best pick for July
- 02AveiroCentro20.6 °C0.3 mm rain a day0.40
- 03LagosAlgarve21.1 °C0.0 mm rain a day0.38
- 04EvoraAlentejo24.8 °C0.1 mm rain a day0.38
- 05SintraLisbon region20.1 °C0.1 mm rain a day0.36
- 06CoimbraCentro22.1 °C0.3 mm rain a day0.36
- 07BragaNorte21.1 °C0.6 mm rain a day0.36
- 08PortoNorte19.9 °C0.4 mm rain a day0.35
- 09CascaisLisbon region19.9 °C0.1 mm rain a day0.34
- 10FunchalMadeira21.6 °C0.2 mm rain a day0.32
- 01SintraLisbon region20.6 °C0.2 mm rain a day0.29Best pick for August
- 02FaroAlgarve23.8 °C0.1 mm rain a day0.29
- 03LagosAlgarve21.7 °C0.1 mm rain a day0.29
- 04CascaisLisbon region20.5 °C0.2 mm rain a day0.29
- 05FunchalMadeira22.6 °C0.3 mm rain a day0.28
- 06CoimbraCentro22.6 °C0.4 mm rain a day0.27
- 07PortoNorte20.3 °C0.7 mm rain a day0.26
- 08AveiroCentro21.1 °C0.6 mm rain a day0.26
- 09BragaNorte21.3 °C0.9 mm rain a day0.25
- 10EvoraAlentejo25.2 °C0.2 mm rain a day0.23
- 01LagosAlgarve21.1 °C0.8 mm rain a day0.37Best pick for September
- 02CascaisLisbon region20.0 °C0.8 mm rain a day0.36
- 03FaroAlgarve22.0 °C0.8 mm rain a day0.35
- 04SintraLisbon region19.9 °C0.9 mm rain a day0.34
- 05AveiroCentro20.0 °C1.6 mm rain a day0.33
- 06EvoraAlentejo22.4 °C0.9 mm rain a day0.32
- 07FunchalMadeira22.5 °C0.7 mm rain a day0.32
- 08BragaNorte18.9 °C1.5 mm rain a day0.29
- 09CoimbraCentro20.2 °C1.3 mm rain a day0.25
- 10PortoNorte19.4 °C1.6 mm rain a day0.24
- 01FunchalMadeira21.4 °C1.3 mm rain a day0.28Best pick for October
- 02LagosAlgarve19.6 °C2.5 mm rain a day0.26
- 03FaroAlgarve19.7 °C2.4 mm rain a day0.25
- 04EvoraAlentejo17.9 °C2.6 mm rain a day0.22
- 05CascaisLisbon region18.6 °C2.6 mm rain a day0.22
- 06SintraLisbon region17.9 °C2.7 mm rain a day0.21
- 07AveiroCentro17.3 °C4.1 mm rain a day0.10
- 08CoimbraCentro15.6 °C3.8 mm rain a day0.08
- 09PortoNorte16.9 °C4.4 mm rain a day0.04
- 10BragaNorte14.1 °C4.5 mm rain a day0.03
- 01FunchalMadeira19.2 °C1.7 mm rain a day0.31Best pick for November
- 02LagosAlgarve16.6 °C3.4 mm rain a day0.25
- 03FaroAlgarve15.9 °C3.1 mm rain a day0.22
- 04CascaisLisbon region15.5 °C3.1 mm rain a day0.21
- 05SintraLisbon region14.4 °C3.1 mm rain a day0.16
- 06EvoraAlentejo12.3 °C2.8 mm rain a day0.13
- 07AveiroCentro13.1 °C4.4 mm rain a day0.05
- 08PortoNorte13.2 °C4.6 mm rain a day0.03
- 09CoimbraCentro10.1 °C4.0 mm rain a day0.03
- 10BragaNorte8.9 °C4.6 mm rain a day0.00
- 01FunchalMadeira17.6 °C1.7 mm rain a day0.34Best pick for December
- 02LagosAlgarve14.8 °C2.5 mm rain a day0.32
- 03FaroAlgarve13.9 °C2.3 mm rain a day0.26
- 04CascaisLisbon region13.5 °C2.1 mm rain a day0.26
- 05SintraLisbon region12.1 °C2.1 mm rain a day0.16
- 06EvoraAlentejo9.3 °C1.9 mm rain a day0.06
- 07AveiroCentro10.8 °C3.5 mm rain a day0.06
- 08PortoNorte11.1 °C3.9 mm rain a day0.05
- 09CoimbraCentro7.4 °C3.2 mm rain a day0.00
- 10BragaNorte6.4 °C4.0 mm rain a day0.00
The pilot
Portugal without Lisbon
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Budget calculatorPorto
Lodging, local transport and four big sights for Porto from open data and official prices, with a calculator you can change. Food is yours to enter.
- €121median night, whole flat
- 4official sight prices
- Data used
- Inside Airbnb lodging bands, Metro do Porto fares, four official sight prices. Food is left for you to enter.
- Last updated
Menu decoderPorto
The Portuguese words on a Porto menu in plain English, and the law on price lists and the couvert (bread and olives) that shows up before you order.
- Art. 135Decreto-Lei 10/2015
- 2026-09-30last read in the act
- Data used
- Article 135 of Decreto-Lei 10/2015 from the Diário da República, plus our plain-English notes on menu words.
- Last updated
How we know
Every number has a file behind it
- Cities
- 10
- Sources
- 6
- Last fetch
As of , this site measures three things for ten cities in Portugal: how warm and wet each month is (NASA POWER mean temperature and rainfall), how busy each city is by month (INE overnight stays), and, for Porto so far, what lodging, local transport and four big sights cost (Inside Airbnb listings and official price lists). It does not measure hotel rates, restaurant averages, sea temperature, safety or how a place feels. Where we have no source, the page shows a gap, not a guess. The best-month score is a formula we chose and print in full. Research and first drafts are AI-assisted. Every figure comes from open data listed on the page with its source and date, and a person reviews each page before it goes live.
- CC BY 4.0
INE, Statistics Portugal
- What we take
- Monthly overnight stays per municipality (indicator 0010735).
- How we use it
- Average of each calendar month over 2023-2025, divided by the busiest month. That is the crowd index.
- Open, attribution required
NASA POWER
- What we take
- Monthly climatology per city point: mean air temperature at 2 m and rainfall.
- How we use it
- Mean temperature, not the daily maximum. Comfort = temperature fit (17-24 °C best) x dryness.
- CC BY 4.0
Eurostat price level indices
- What we take
- Price level of restaurants and hotels, EU27 = 100, latest year.
- How we use it
- Shown as the published index. Used for country comparison only, never as a city price.
- CC BY 4.0
Inside Airbnb
- What we take
- Listed nightly prices in Porto city parishes, snapshot 2026-06-23.
- How we use it
- Median and quartiles per room type. These are Airbnb-style listings, not hotel rates.
- Public price list, figures only
Metro do Porto fares
- What we take
- Official single, 24-hour and tour ticket prices.
- How we use it
- Read from the official page with a dated screenshot per price. No text copied.
- Official act, paraphrased
Diário da República (DRE)
- What we take
- Article 135 of Decreto-Lei 10/2015: price lists and the couvert.
- How we use it
- Read in the act and in its consolidated version. Explained in plain English, not legal advice.