Sources

Tourism: January–December 2025 · Climate: IPMA normals 1991–2020 · Checked 30 September 2026

Underlying monthly figures

INE overnight stays, before day-count adjustment. Choose a region or town on Area details to view its underlying figures.

  1. INE, indicator 0010735, monthly overnight stays by geography and accommodation segment, total segment. Official data endpoint. TravelBI municipality dashboard and source description.
  2. TravelBI, glossary and accommodation coverage. https://travelbi.turismodeportugal.pt/glossario-notas-importantes/
  3. IPMA, climate normals 1991–2020. https://www.ipma.pt/pt/oclima/normais.clima/1991-2020/.
  4. Coimbra municipality, Queima das Fitas and street parade. https://www.cm-coimbra.pt/areas/viver/cultura/eventos-regulares/queima-das-fitas
  5. University of Coimbra, visitor opening hours and closing dates. https://visit.uc.pt/en/info
  6. VisitPortugal, Porto’s São João. https://www.visitportugal.com/pt-pt/content/festas-de-sao-joao
  7. VisitPortugal, Fátima pilgrimages. https://www.visitportugal.com/pt-pt/node/155838/1000
  8. VisitPortugal, Senhora da Agonia. https://www.visitportugal.com/pt-pt/NR/exeres/40D3EEB2-1E35-4C76-9B1C-596B5BDFF921
  9. Zoomarine, 2026 ticket season and operating calendar. https://www.zoomarine.pt/en/price-and-tickets/park-tickets/. Operating-day calendar.

Recurring annual events and attendance

The catalog covers sourced annual visitor events across the ten touring regions. Months are planning cues, not guarantees of future dates. Carnival can fall in February or March, Easter in March or April, and sports calendars can move between months. Edition-specific programmes are labeled. Empty months indicate research gaps, not an absence of local events.

Each month shows up to four highlights, with additional listings expandable. Selection puts events with published attendance evidence first, then organizer forecasts, then other documented visitor events. Among counts using the same counting basis, larger figures appear first. Missing figures do not mean smaller crowds. This is a curated selection, not a statistical ranking of the most-attended events.

Attendance figures retain their year, source and counting basis. Venue entries, summed spectator attendances, reported visitors and unique people are different measures. Do not sum figures across events or assume they count unique people. Rally de Portugal’s figure covers the complete multi-region event. Forecasts are labeled and are not final attendance figures or predictions for your travel dates.

Rainfall totals and frequency

Max % rain limits the historical daily frequency shown below. Matching uses the unrounded value and includes values equal to the limit. A 100% limit allows every month. This preference does not limit monthly rainfall totals.

Source: IPMA station climate normals, 1991–2020. Rainfall totals use the Prec [mm] row. Rainfall (%) uses the P ≥ 1 mm row: average wet days divided by average days in that calendar month, multiplied by 100. February uses 28 + 8/30 days to include leap years in the reference period. Percentages describe historical daily frequency, not a forecast. Trace rainfall below 1 mm is excluded.

Cruise visits and pedestrian activity

Cruise calls can increase daytime foot traffic near terminals and excursion destinations. This is a qualitative planning note, separate from the accommodation-based Activity score. In Lisbon, Baixa, Alfama, Chiado and Belém may be affected; no neighborhood footfall counts are implied. Schedules change and vessel capacity is not passengers ashore.

Checked 28 October 2026. Unpublished future months mean incomplete schedules, not zero calls. Prior-year monthly totals can provide a labeled historical reference, but cannot be treated as future scheduled dockings. Hotel nights and cruise passenger calls cannot simply be added.

Other factors affecting pedestrian intensity include day trips, excursion buses, weekends and public or school holidays, festivals and pilgrimages, conferences, university calendars, commuters, attraction opening times, beach weather, roadworks and street closures. A monthly regional average can hide a short surge on a narrow street.

Cruise data and chart method

Open the cruise data quality report. The Lisbon annual chart uses the port’s 2025 per-call export because it includes expected passengers and arrival/departure times for each call. All 335 rows include an expected-passenger value. The official monthly summary differs by one call in February and two in December; this small difference is ignored for the chart. The summary reports passenger movements, without the individual call dates required to calculate inclusive passenger-days.

Both cruise charts show average expected passengers in port daily, grouped by month. Count each call on every calendar date from arrival through departure inclusive, add the passenger estimates on each date, then divide by all calendar days in the month, including days with no listed calls. Docking times are ignored. It does not show maximum vessel capacity, crew, actual passengers aboard or people ashore. Two technical calls are excluded; tender calls remain included without a disembarkation adjustment. Dates are used as supplied. A missing departure date contributes the arrival date only and marks the month incomplete.

CruiseMapper lists passenger and crew capacities separately and is suitable as a secondary published-capacity source when the listed vessel is matched to a port-call record. For example, its Viking Torgil specifications list 106 passengers and 33 crew. Those figures are not actual occupancy. Its Lisbon itinerary includes hotel nights and a land transfer; the ship sails on the Douro. This is not evidence that Viking Torgil docks in Lisbon. It is absent from the 2025 Lisbon call export used for this chart.

Passenger-capacity acquisition now covers 215 name records across the stored port calls: 211 have sourced published figures. Four exceptions are recorded individually: SONATA (provisional identity), Viking Artemis (no dependable identity/capacity match found), SeaDream III (operator figures unconfirmed), and Alexander von Humboldt II (sail-training vessel, excluded from conventional cruise capacity). These are name records; renamed vessels may appear more than once. Passenger figures use the upper end of a published range where given; crew is separate. Capacity is not actual occupancy. Inspect every capacity and source.

Port coverage

We do not have annual timed passenger data for every Portuguese cruise port. Lisbon’s 2025 chart is available. The remaining coverage is shown below; missing records do not mean zero visitors.

Download port-by-port coverage and source links. Other annual passenger-load charts cannot currently be completed from these retrieved records. Future schedules are not treated as 90% complete without evidence. Tendered passenger visits are included; unknown tender status remains unknown.

Map data and credits

Tourism: January–December 2025 · Temperature: IPMA 1991–2020 normals

Boundaries: Eurostat GISCO, NUTS 2013, 1:10 million, grouped into the guide’s ten touring regions. © EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries. Boundaries are simplified and are unsuitable for precise navigation.

Road basemap: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Terrain: Mapzen terrain tiles. Mapping engine: MapLibre. Basemap and terrain require an internet connection.