Global CityIntelligence

Portugal / Southern Europe

Cascais City Intelligence

Cascais is a coastal municipality on the western edge of the Lisbon metropolitan area with rail access to the capital, a service- and tourism-oriented economy, and elevated housing costs relative to regional peers. Cascais is a southern europe city of about ~214K in Portugal. On the composite city-intelligence score, Cascais sits below the indexed median, with practical gaps to close (66/100).

Last updated
2026-05-16
Data year
2025
Population
~214K
View of Cascais, Portugal

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Overall score

Use the Cascais profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and resilience alongside regional peers such as Lisbon, Almada, and Amadora.

Overall66/100
Affordability49/100
Air quality74/100
Energy65/100

Overall city intelligence

Mixed

66/100

Composite directional score across affordability, air quality, clean energy, and resilience.

Data confidence

Directional

Directional indicators pending integration of verified city-level data.

Verified utility layers

See country hub

Emergency, healthcare, and transport verification status appears on the country hub.

Cascais data table

The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.

Cascais city intelligence data table
MetricValueContext
Overall score66/100Composite score across major city intelligence modules.
Cost of Living49/100Cascais's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.
Air Quality74/100Cascais's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.
Energy65/100Cascais's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.
Safety70/100Cascais's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.
Internet Speed66/100Cascais's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.
Climate Risk74/100Cascais's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.
Resilience74/100Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context.

Emergency and public safety in Cascais

Local public safety guidance for Cascais, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.

Verified
Portugal emergency contacts
ServiceNumberNotes
European emergency11224/7112 reaches police, fire, and ambulance dispatch across the European Union from any phone, free of charge.

For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Cascais, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the Portugal emergency profile.

Public safety sources

Each emergency contact above is attributed to an official emergency service or government publisher. Confirm current numbers directly with these sources.

Last verified: 2026-05-16

Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.

Healthcare and hospitals in Cascais

Healthcare context for Cascais, with national-level information from Portugal where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.

Unverified

For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Cascais, see the Portugal healthcare profile, which currently lists no verified national healthcare information.

Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.

Transport and mobility in Cascais

Local mobility context for Cascais, with national-level context from Portugal where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.

Unverified

For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Cascais, see the Portugal transport profile, which currently lists no verified national transport information.

Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.

Air quality dataset

Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Cascais. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.

Air quality dataset for Cascais

Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025

Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location

Source-attributed values for Cascais will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.

Cascais air-quality dataset coverage
MetricValueData yearStatus
Air qualityVerified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location.

Data provenance

Source attribution

  • Global City Intelligence — air-quality dataset

    Verified data unavailable
    Publisher
    Global City Intelligence
    Last verified
    2026-05-16

    The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).

Explore Cascais modules

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Cost of Living in Cascais

Cascais's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.

Air Quality in Cascais

Cascais's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.

Energy in Cascais

Cascais's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.

Safety in Cascais

Cascais's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.

Internet Speed in Cascais

Cascais's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.

Climate Risk in Cascais

Cascais's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.

City rankings

Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.

Cost of living in Cascais

Cost of living estimates for Cascais — monthly budgets, rent, food, and transport in the local currency, plus an affordability score for comparison. Planning estimates derived from country baselines, not live prices.

Visual guide to Cascais

Source-attributed visual context for Cascais using verified Wikimedia imagery from the existing media catalog, alongside structured city intelligence and planning links. Not a tourism guide or attractions ranking.

Weekend trip planning guide for Cascais

Weekend trip planning checklist for Cascais — links into arrival planning, Summer 2026 travel context, visual orientation, budget tools, transport, public safety, and healthcare context. Not an itinerary, events calendar, hotel-price guide, restaurant guide, or tourism ranking.

Nearby weekend places from Cascais

Source-backed nearby place records for local-first weekend planning, with verification status, official source links, Wikidata identity, and visual context.

Estimate a monthly budget for Cascais

Estimate a monthly budget for Cascais using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.

Plan a trip budget for Cascais

Plan a trip budget for Cascais using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.

Nearby cities from Cascais

Where else nearby you could spend a day or a weekend from Cascais. Links are derived from geographic proximity, shared region, shared natural-recreation areas, transport corridors, and country borders — not popularity or tourism rankings.

Sintra, Portugal

Same region · about 11 km from Cascais. Explore Sintra's city intelligence profile.

Amadora, Portugal

Same region · about 17 km from Cascais. Explore Amadora's city intelligence profile.

Lisbon, Portugal

Same region · about 18 km from Cascais. Explore Lisbon's city intelligence profile.

Almada, Portugal

Same region · about 23 km from Cascais. Explore Almada's city intelligence profile.

Loures, Portugal

Same region · about 27 km from Cascais. Explore Loures's city intelligence profile.

Setúbal, Portugal

Same region · about 50 km from Cascais. Explore Setúbal's city intelligence profile.

Leiria, Portugal

Same region · about 128 km from Cascais. Explore Leiria's city intelligence profile.

Évora, Portugal

Mountain cluster · about 132 km from Cascais. Explore Évora's city intelligence profile.

Coimbra, Portugal

Same region · about 189 km from Cascais. Explore Coimbra's city intelligence profile.

Portimão, Portugal

Same region · about 190 km from Cascais. Explore Portimão's city intelligence profile.

Related collections

Regional discovery collections that include Cascais — named natural regions grouping nearby nature, parks, lakes, coasts, and mountains for local-first day and weekend planning.

Themed collections

Theme-first discovery collections that include Cascais — grouped by outdoor interest (mountains, lakes, coasts, forests, national parks) rather than geography.

Interpretation

Use the Cascais profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and resilience alongside regional peers such as Lisbon, Almada, and Amadora. Its standout dimensions are air quality (74/100) and climate risk (74/100). The area most worth watching is cost of living (49/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 4 institutional references.

Country context is available on the Portugal country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Cascais appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.

Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.

Sources

4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.