TravelCharika

Barcelona or Lisbon?

994 km apart, in Spain and Portugal. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

Barcelona is the better pick in April and November; Lisbon in February to March, May to June and September to October; either in July to August and December to January.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Barcelona 12° 5d 14° 4d 15° 7d 17° 6d 20° 5d 25° 4d 27° 2d 28° 5d 24° 9d 21° 8d 16° 7d 14° 4d
Lisbon 14° 8d 15° 6d 16° 9d 19° 8d 22° 3d 24° 2d 26° 0d 27° 0d 25° 2d 22° 6d 17° 8d 15° 7d
Pick eitherLisbonLisbonBarcelonaLisbonLisboneithereitherLisbonLisbonBarcelonaeither

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month.

Before you go

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

Between them

994 km as the crow flies, about 2h 08m in the air.Nonstop, about 14 a day · 6 airlines. By bus, about 12h 37m · BlaBlaCar Bus · AVE 03112. By road, 1,247 km and about 11h 53m.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.