Supported cities
34
City profiles indexed for Portugal.
Southern Europe
Portugal Country Intelligence Hub
Portugal's profile blends mild Atlantic climate, strong renewable resources, and rising remote-work and digital-services activity in major cities. Portugal is indexed at the country level in Southern Europe, with 34 city profiles linked below.
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Country code
- PT
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Visual context
Additional verified imagery for Portugal. Each photo is sourced from Wikimedia Commons with full attribution and a permissive license.
Pena Palace
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Portugal country overview
Snapshot of structured Portugal city intelligence and which verified utility layers are available on this hub.
Portugal country overview
Emergency profile
Verified
Country emergency contacts attributed to official publishers.
Healthcare profile
Fallback
Verified healthcare data is not available; fallback context is shown.
Transport profile
Fallback
Verified transport data is not available; fallback context is shown.
Related comparisons
1
Curated city-vs-city comparison pages that reference this country.
Related collections
1
Best Cities collections that include at least one city from this country.
Data year
2025
Reference year for the country intelligence dataset.
Last updated
2026-05-16
Most recent platform-side review of the country hub.
Renewable resource
Very strong
Wind and solar potential support a steady national clean-energy build-out.
Climate context
Mild Atlantic
Coastal moderation supports a comfortable urban operating environment.
Digital readiness
Strong
Fiber and 5G coverage support remote work and digital services.
Portugal data table
Country pages group cities into crawlable clusters and give national context without replacing city-level comparisons.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Region | Southern Europe | Used for geographic clustering and regional comparisons. |
| Indexed cities | 34 | Ponta Delgada, Portimão, Vila Real, Guarda, Sintra, Cascais, Loures, Matosinhos, Almada, Amadora, Leiria, Vila Nova de Gaia, Setúbal, Lisbon, Porto, Braga, Coimbra, Faro, Aveiro, Funchal, Guimarães, Évora, Viseu, Viana do Castelo, Bragança, Agualva-Cacém, Queluz, Oliveira de Azeméis, Montijo, Pombal, Olhão, Paços de Ferreira, Ourém, Marinha Grande |
| Renewable resource | Very strong | Wind and solar potential support a steady national clean-energy build-out. |
| Climate context | Mild Atlantic | Coastal moderation supports a comfortable urban operating environment. |
| Digital readiness | Strong | Fiber and 5G coverage support remote work and digital services. |
Indexed cities in Portugal
Each linked city page includes its own metadata, data table, source block, module links, and any verified utility layers.
Indexed cities in Portugal
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Ponta Delgada
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Ponta Delgada profile to compare airport access, affordability, and resilience alongside Lisbon, Funchal, and Porto.
Overall74/100
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Portimão
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Portimão profile to compare affordability, seasonality, and resilience alongside Faro, Lisbon, and Cascais.
Overall68/100
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Vila Real
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Vila Real profile to compare affordability, energy, and resilience alongside Porto, Braga, and Guimarães.
Overall64/100
Image credit: Image: Cláudio Franco from Torres Vedras, Portugal / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Guarda
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Guarda profile to compare affordability, climate, and resilience alongside Coimbra, Porto, and Braga.
Overall61/100
Image credit: Image: Diego Delso / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sintra
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Sintra profile to compare housing cost framing, transport access, and air quality alongside regional peers such as Lisbon, Amadora, and Almada.
Overall67/100
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Cascais
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Cascais profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and resilience alongside regional peers such as Lisbon, Almada, and Amadora.
Overall66/100
Image credit: Image: Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, PORTUGAL / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Loures
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Loures profile to compare affordability, transport access, and industrial profile alongside regional peers such as Lisbon, Amadora, and Almada.
Overall63/100
Image credit: Image: Anibal Miranda from Matosinhos, Portugal / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Matosinhos
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Matosinhos profile to compare port and industrial profile, transport access, and affordability alongside regional peers such as Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia, and Braga.
Overall64/100
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Almada
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Almada profile to compare transport access, cost framing, and air quality alongside Lisbon, Setubal, and other regional peers.
Overall64/100
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Amadora
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Amadora profile to compare transport access, affordability, and population density alongside Lisbon and other regional peers.
Overall62/100
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Leiria
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Leiria profile to compare cost framing, industrial base, and transport access alongside Coimbra, Aveiro, and other regional peers.
Overall66/100
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Vila Nova de Gaia
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Vila Nova de Gaia profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level context alongside Porto, Braga, and Aveiro.
Overall72/100
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Setúbal
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Setúbal profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and climate-adaptation context alongside Lisbon and other Southern-European metros.
Overall70/100
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Lisbon
Portugal / Southern Europe
Lisbon is most useful for users comparing affordability, climate, and connectivity for remote work or relocation against rising housing pressure.
Overall82/100
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Porto
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Porto profile to compare cost framing, country-level context, and connectivity signals alongside Lisbon and other Southern-European metros.
Overall79/100
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Braga
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Braga profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level context alongside Porto and Coimbra.
Overall72/100
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Coimbra
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Coimbra profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level context alongside Porto and Braga.
Overall72/100
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Faro
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use this record as a regional planning anchor while deeper source integration is pending. Verify access, transport, and seasonal context with official sources before relying on the page for travel decisions.
Overall50/100
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Aveiro
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use this record as a regional planning anchor while deeper source integration is pending. Verify access, transport, and seasonal context with official sources before relying on the page for travel decisions.
Overall50/100
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Funchal
Portugal / Madeira
Use this record as a planning anchor for local-first research and nearby weekend-rest discovery, verifying access, transport, and seasonal context with official sources.
Overall50/100
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Guimarães
Portugal / Norte Region
Use this record as a planning anchor for local-first research and nearby weekend-rest discovery, verifying access, transport, and seasonal context with official sources.
Overall50/100
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Évora
Portugal / Alentejo
Use this record as a planning anchor for local-first research and nearby weekend-rest discovery, verifying access, transport, and seasonal context with official sources.
Overall50/100
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Viseu
Portugal / Centro (Viseu Dão Lafões)
This record works as a planning anchor for local-first research and nearby weekend-rest discovery, with travellers advised to verify access, transport, and seasonal details through official sources.
Overall50/100
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Viana do Castelo
Portugal / Norte (Alto Minho)
This record works as a planning anchor for local-first research and nearby weekend-rest discovery, with travellers advised to verify access, transport, and seasonal details through official sources.
Overall50/100
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Bragança
Portugal / Norte (Trás-os-Montes)
Bragança works as a planning anchor for local-first research and nearby weekend-rest discovery, with travellers advised to confirm access, transport, and seasonal details through official sources.
Overall50/100
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Agualva-Cacém
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Agualva-Cacém profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Portugal and across Southern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall66/100
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Queluz
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Queluz profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Portugal and across Southern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall73/100
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Oliveira de Azeméis
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Oliveira de Azeméis profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Portugal and across Southern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall67/100
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Montijo
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Montijo profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Portugal and across Southern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall71/100
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Pombal
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Pombal profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Portugal and across Southern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall72/100
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Olhão
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Olhão profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Portugal and across Southern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall72/100
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Paços de Ferreira
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Paços de Ferreira profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Portugal and across Southern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall71/100
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Ourém
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Ourém profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Portugal and across Southern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall67/100
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Marinha Grande
Portugal / Southern Europe
Use the Marinha Grande profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Portugal and across Southern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall73/100
Country indicators
Source-attributed country-level indicators for Portugal, drawn from the World Bank Development Indicators. Use the cards and table together to compare scale, unit, and data year for each metric.
Country indicators for Portugal
VerifiedOfficial dataLast updated 2026-04-08 · data year 2024
How to read these country indicators
Reading guideCountry-level, not city-level
Indicators describe national context. Pair them with city profiles, comparisons, and verified utility layers (emergency, healthcare, transport) for local detail.
Source-attributed where available
Values come from the World Bank Development Indicators. Where no verified record exists, the platform shows a transparent fallback rather than a guessed number.
Different indicators, different years
Each record carries its own data year because publishers refresh indicators on their own cadence. The card and table both display the year alongside the value.
Context, not a ranking
Treat indicators as orientation, not as a leaderboard. The platform never claims any country is best, safest, cleanest, richest, healthiest, or most connected.
Read alongside city intelligence
Country indicators are most useful when combined with the city profiles in the country, the public-safety, healthcare, and transport sections, and the methodology and data-sources pages.
For full construction details, read the methodology page and the data sources registry.
Economic context
National-level economic signals to read alongside city-level cost and services pages.
GDP per capita
Verified29,292.24current US$Economic context only — not a cost-of-living score or a household-income measure.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
Unemployment rate
Verified6.16percentModeled ILO labor-market context — not a guarantee of job availability for any specific worker.
Data year 2025 updated 2026-04-08
Population and urban context
National scale and urbanisation context; pair with city profiles for local detail.
Population
Verified10,694,681peopleNational scale only — not a city population value or a measure of urban density.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
Urban population share
Verified61.33percentShare of population living in urban areas — not a quality-of-life or urban-form measure.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
Digital access context
Connectivity context drawn from World Bank usage and subscription indicators.
Internet usage
Verified88.49percentShare of population that uses the internet — not a measure of connection speed or quality.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
Fixed broadband subscriptions
Verified45.24per 100 peopleFixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people — not a measure of overall internet quality or speed.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
Health context
National health-system context; not a substitute for verified city-level healthcare layers.
Life expectancy
Verified82.38yearsNational health-context indicator — not individual health guidance.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
Health expenditure per capita
Verified2,971.04current US$Per-capita spending context — not a measure of healthcare quality or access for any individual.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
Environment context
National emissions context; read separately from city-level air-quality data.
CO₂ emissions per capita
Verified3.32metric tons per capitaNational emissions context — not a city-level air-quality measurement.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
| Indicator | Value | Unit | Data year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 10,694,681 | people | 2024 | Verified |
| Internet usage | 88.49 | percent | 2024 | Verified |
| Urban population share | 61.33 | percent | 2024 | Verified |
| GDP per capita | 29,292.24 | current US$ | 2024 | Verified |
| Life expectancy | 82.38 | years | 2024 | Verified |
| Health expenditure per capita | 2,971.04 | current US$ | 2024 | Verified |
| Unemployment rate | 6.16 | percent | 2025 | Verified |
| CO₂ emissions per capita | 3.32 | metric tons per capita | 2024 | Verified |
| Fixed broadband subscriptions | 45.24 | per 100 people | 2024 | Verified |
Data provenance
Source attributionGlobal City Intelligence — country indicators dataset
Verified- Publisher
- World Bank — World Development Indicators
- Last verified
- 2026-04-08
Methodology and context
Country indicator values appear in this section only after they are sourced from accepted publishers and validated at build time. Malformed records cannot ship to production.
- Scoring methodology — how indicators across the platform are constructed.
- Data sources registry — the official sources cited by verified datasets.
- Cited references: World Bank
Emergency and public safety in Portugal
Verified emergency contacts for Portugal, drawn from official emergency services and government publishers. Use these as a starting point and confirm current details with local authorities before traveling or relocating.
| Service | Number | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| European emergency | 11224/7 | 112 reaches police, fire, and ambulance dispatch across the European Union from any phone, free of charge. |
Public safety sources
Each emergency contact above is attributed to an official emergency service or government publisher. Confirm current numbers directly with these sources.
- European Commission: 112 — The European emergency number
Used as the primary attribution for the EU-wide 112 universal emergency number on European country profiles.
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 Portugal
Verified national healthcare information for Portugal, drawn from official government and public health publishers. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.
Transport and mobility in Portugal
Verified national transport context for Portugal, attributed to official transport ministries, national operators, and aviation authorities. This is informational only; routes, fares, and schedules change frequently — check the linked authorities for current details.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.
Related city comparisons for Portugal
Curated city-vs-city comparisons that include at least one city from Portugal. Each link opens a comparison page with structured indicators across cost, safety, healthcare, transport, and country context.
Related city comparisons for Portugal
Best Cities collections featuring Portugal
Curated city collections that include at least one Portugal city. Each collection is a comparison-oriented shortlist, not an official ranking.
Best Cities collections featuring Portugal
Remote work
Best Cities for Remote Workers: City Intelligence Shortlist
A curated city intelligence shortlist for remote workers, comparing cities across cost context, safety, healthcare, transport, connectivity, and relocation utility — not an official ranking.
1 city from Portugal in this collection
Rankings featuring Portugal cities
Explore rankings where supported Portugal city profiles appear. Use rankings as directional city intelligence, not an official government ranking.
Rankings featuring Portugal cities
Ranking
Overall City Intelligence Ranking
A balanced ranking of cities across affordability, air quality, clean-energy readiness, and resilience.
34 cities from Portugal appears in this ranking
Ranking
Best Cities for Quality of Life
Cities that combine strong services, mobility, safety, clean air, and resilience into a healthy day-to-day profile.
34 cities from Portugal appears in this ranking
Ranking
Best Cities for Remote Workers
Cities that combine fast connectivity, safety, healthy day-to-day life, and a manageable cost-of-living balance for remote and hybrid workers.
34 cities from Portugal appears in this ranking
Ranking
Cleanest Air Cities
A health-oriented comparison of city air-quality scores using WHO-centered pollutant interpretation.
34 cities from Portugal appears in this ranking
Ranking
Most Affordable Global Cities
Cities ranked by cost-of-living score, weighing housing pressure, essential spending, and household offsets across global metros.
34 cities from Portugal appears in this ranking
Ranking
Best Connected Cities
Cities ranked by internet speed, mobile coverage, and digital-readiness depth for residents, businesses, and remote workers.
34 cities from Portugal appears in this ranking
Ranking
Energy Ready City Ranking
A ranking of city energy-transition readiness, grid resilience, clean-resource potential, and adaptation capacity.
34 cities from Portugal appears in this ranking
Ranking
Affordability Balance Ranking
A practical affordability ranking that weighs housing pressure against transport access, services, and opportunity density.
34 cities from Portugal appears in this ranking
See the full rankings directory for every available structured ranking.
Interpretation and methodology note
Across 34 indexed cities, Lisbon leads at 82/100 and Bragança sits at 50/100. Use the country page as a parent context layer; module-level detail lives on each city profile. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 5 institutional references.
Structured indicators on this hub are directional and intended for orientation. Verified utility layers — emergency, healthcare, transport — are attributed to official publishers where available and use transparent fallback states where verified country-level data is not yet integrated.
- Cities directory — browse every indexed city profile.
- All countries — navigate to other country hubs.
- City comparisons — curated city-vs-city pages with structured indicators.
- Best Cities collections — comparison-oriented shortlists by intent.
- All rankings — structured rankings across city intelligence categories.
- Read the scoring methodology for the scoring model used across modules.
- Browse all data sources for the source registry behind verified layers.
- Travel budget calculator — plan a trip budget for cities in Portugal. Use your own trip inputs and then review city, public safety, healthcare, and transport context. Planning estimator only, not an official travel cost estimate.
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
5 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.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- European Environment Agency: Air Quality Status Report
Used where European city comparisons need monitored air-quality context.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.
- International Energy Agency: Empowering Urban Energy Transitions
Used to ground energy-readiness scoring in international transition guidance.