Porto
Porto, Portugal: the weather, the air, the distance to the coast and what a month costs, each with its source. This page assesses no one.
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A year here
12 of 12 months have a mean temperature inside 10–26 °C, a band we chose and apply to every city alike. Thirty-year normals from NASA POWER, measured at this city’s own coordinates.
- Jan13118
- Feb14118
- Mar15129
- Apr171411
- May191613
- Jun221815
- Jul242016
- Aug252017
- Sept241916
- Oct211714
- Nov161311
- Dec14119
Each cell: average daily high, monthly mean, average daily low, in °C. These are averages of daily values over 2001–2020, not records — the hottest day is higher and is not shown.
How near the sea is
1.7 km
Straight-line distance from this city’s coordinates to the nearest coastline, computed from Natural Earth 1:10m Physical Vectors — Coastline (ne_10m_coastline) v5.1.2 at 1:10,000,000. Natural Earth is public domain, and anyone can download the same file and get the same number.
It is a distance and not an access. A city 8 km from the coast across a mountain ridge is not 8 km from the sea in any sense you would use, and the figure says nothing about what is on that coast — a container terminal and a bay give the same number. The coastline is the outline of the dataset’s land, so a river wide enough to separate land counts as coast.
How this city rates
- Safety
- 99 / 100measured
- Healthcare
- 90 / 100measured
- Air quality
- not held
A month here, for a reference household
Reference household: two adults aged 38 and 37, a one-bedroom home, no children.
Residence fees and health cover are those of EU/EEA free movement (register within 30 days after three months). The low, middle and high figures are the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles where a publisher states them; each line says who published it.
illustrative Money figures on this page are illustrative unless the figure names its publisher. The illustrative ones are arranged so the shape is right — a larger flat costs more than a smaller one, and the expensive cities are the expensive ones — and they are accurate in nothing. Do not plan on them.
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| Line | P25The lower quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall below it. Read it as the cheaper end of what is realistic, not as a bargain you can count on. | P50The middle of the estimate range: half the observations fall below it and half above. It is the figure to read first — not a promise, but the most representative single number we have. | P75The upper quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall above it. Budget against this one if you want room to be wrong. | Basis |
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| Rent* | not published | €318 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Instituto Nacional de Estatística, IP (Portugal) More about this figurePorto, observed 2 October 2026Measured in 2021.Covers every rented home in the city, including tenants who signed years ago.This figure covers rented homes of every size in the city, so it does not change with the number of bedrooms a household needs.Rents in existing contracts — a newcomer is usually asked more.Shown here and kept out of the ranking: the same office also measures what people signing a new lease now pay, and that is the figure this city should be ranked on. |
| Electricity, gas and fuel* | not published | €104 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Instituto Nacional de Estatística, I.P. (INE) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2023.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average private household resident in the Norte region — all of northern mainland Portugal, not the city — per household per month, Inquérito às Despesas das Famílias 2022/2023, every tenure and household size; INE states no household size for the region, and publishes no Porto metropolitan figure.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12).Shown here and kept out of the ranking: the period it measures ended more than three years ago. |
| Water, sewerage and waste* | not published | €27 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Instituto Nacional de Estatística, I.P. (INE) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2023.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average private household resident in the Norte region — all of northern mainland Portugal, not the city — per household per month, Inquérito às Despesas das Famílias 2022/2023, every tenure and household size; INE states no household size for the region, and publishes no Porto metropolitan figure.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12).Shown here and kept out of the ranking: the period it measures ended more than three years ago. |
| Internet and phone* | not published | €58 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Instituto Nacional de Estatística, I.P. (INE) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2023.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average private household resident in the Norte region — all of northern mainland Portugal, not the city — per household per month, Inquérito às Despesas das Famílias 2022/2023, every tenure and household size; INE states no household size for the region, and publishes no Porto metropolitan figure.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12).Shown here and kept out of the ranking: the period it measures ended more than three years ago. |
| Groceries* | not published | €208 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Instituto Nacional de Estatística, I.P. (INE) More about this figureAdults: 2 · children: 0Measured in 2023.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: Per person, per month, averaged over every private household resident in Norte: IDEF 2022/23's food bill per household divided by INE's 2021 Census mean household size for the same region. IDEF's household is the people «cujas despesas fundamentais ou básicas (alimentação, alojamento) são suportadas conjuntamente»; the Census counts «Todas as pessoas residentes no alojamento». The divisor counts everyone in one dwelling, and a dwelling can hold more than one household that shares a budget, so the divisor is somewhat larger than the survey's own household and this per-person figure reads a little low. The region stands in for the city, and a child is charged the same as an adult.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12).This is the survey’s average person. Food has strong economies of scale, and the publisher states one figure per person and no split by household size — so a larger household is charged here as though each member shopped alone.3,206 EUR a year per household (2022/23) ÷ 2.57 people per household (2021), both published by Instituto Nacional de Estatística, I.P. (INE); the household size is the publisher’s household statistic, which counts everyone living in one dwelling, not the survey’s ownShown here and kept out of the ranking: the period it measures ended more than three years ago. |
| Transport* | €60 | €60 | €60 | Published figurePublished by STCP — Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto, E.I.M., S.A. More about this figureAdults: 2Measured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: One person's monthly Andante Municipal pass, valid on every operator of the Andante system — Metro do Porto, STCP buses and CP urban trains — within the zones of one municipality, Porto for a Porto resident. Not the Andante Metropolitano (40 €), which covers the whole metropolitan area.This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself. |
| Health cover* | €0 | €0 | €0 | Published figurePublished by Assembleia da República — Lei n.º 95/2019 (Lei de Bases da Saúde) More about this figureA premium or rate the state sets.Per member, by age bandMeasured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: Per person, any age: an EU or EEA national resident or staying in Portugal, working or not, is a beneficiary of the SNS — «São igualmente beneficiários do SNS os cidadãos, com residência permanente ou em situação de estada ou residência temporárias em Portugal, que sejam nacionais de Estados-Membros da União Europeia» (Base 21 n.º 2) — and the SNS is financed «por verbas do Orçamento do Estado» (Base 23 n.º 1). No premium is charged. Medicines co-payments, dentistry and unreferred hospital-emergency fees are not in this figure.This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself. |
| Schooling (state schooling)* | €0 | €0 | €0 | Published figurePublished by Assembleia da República (Lei n.º 85/2009) More about this figureChildren: 0Measured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: Compulsory schooling in a state school, per child. Lei n.º 85/2009 art. 3.º n.º 1: "No âmbito da escolaridade obrigatória o ensino é universal e gratuito." N.º 2 states what the free-ness covers: "propinas, taxas e emolumentos relacionados com a matrícula, frequência escolar e certificação do aproveitamento" — enrolment, attendance and certification. It does not state that meals, transport or materials are free.This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself. |
| Building or service charge | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Statutory levies and licences* | €3 | €3 | €3 | Published figurePublished by Assembleia da República — Lei n.º 30/2003, artigo 4.º n.º 1 More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: The contribuição para o audiovisual, per month, charged on the household's electricity supply. Lei n.º 30/2003 art. 4.º n.º 1: "O valor mensal da contribuição é de 2,85(euro)." Art. 3.º n.º 2 puts it on the supply of electricity and makes it monthly, so a household renting one dwelling with one supply pays it once. VAT at the reduced rate is added on the invoice and is not in this figure. The reduction to EUR 1 for five social-benefit groups (n.º 2) and the exemption below 400 kWh a year (n.º 4) are not applied, because the intake holds neither fact.This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself. |
| Residence permit renewals* | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobodyPublished by Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo (AIMA) — Tabela de Taxas, Portaria n.º 307/2023, de 13 de outubro More about this figurePer household |
| Domestic help | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Household and leisure baseline | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePeople: 2 |
| Total | not published | €778 | not published | This total does not include Building or service charge, Residence permit renewals, Domestic help and Household and leisure baseline, which nobody publishes for this city. It is the sum of what we hold, not of what the household will pay.No low or high total, because the spread of these lines was never published: Rent, Electricity, gas and fuel, Water, sewerage and waste, Internet and phone and Groceries. Everything else here is either a measured range or an exact price. |
– = not published by the source
Routes we hold for Portugal
- EU/EEA free movement (register within 30 days after three months) — Checked against the law
- Passive-income residence permit — Draft — not checked by us yet
Every requirement, as its rule states it, is on the page for Portugal
Provenance
Rule set 1.58.0-2026-10-11 · read on 26 October 2026. Every figure on this page was computed by the engine from versioned rule files. No language model produced any number here, and translation happens only after the calculation.
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