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Portimão

Faro
41 credits+5.1%
Foral Index: 47.5

City Statistics

Population

56 275

Area

182.06 km²

District

Faro

NUTS II

Algarve

Category Breakdown

Performance across 6 scoring categories

People & Families

8.4 / 20

Economy & Jobs

9.6 / 20

Housing & Cost

5.1 / 20

Governance

10.1 / 20

Environment

6.1 / 20

News Radar

8.2 / 20

Top Scoring Drivers

Key indicators affecting this city's score

Emergency Data Coverage

SNS Tempos - Hospital Metadata
People & Families

1.00

Data from 2026

P100

Open Tender Share

Foral Intelligence
Governance

35.5%

Data from 2026

P99

Tourism Overnight Stays

INE - Instituto Nacional de Estatistica
Economy & Jobs

2 796 622

Data from 2025

P98

Emergency Wait (Very Urgent Priority)

SNS Tempos - Emergency Wait Times
People & Families

41 min

Data from 2026

P1

Unanimous Decision Rate

Foral Intelligence
Governance

4.7%

Data from 2026

P1

Rent Price Annual Variation

Foral Intelligence
Housing & Cost

26.8%

Data from 2026

P1

Recent News

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Governance Digest

PDM — map and rules

Land classes, constraints and building rules for the concelho.

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City Strategy

Knowledge-base coverage

What a Foral Terra report for this municipality can decide today, and what it withholds.

Review mode: Automatic (no operator review)Release: r19

Coverage of this analysis: between 21% and 28%

Still to confirm:
  • · Land applicability to be confirmed
  • · Document available — needs validation
  • · Document available — needs validation — Agricultural support

These open questions could change the conclusion.

See all (11)
  • · Document available — needs validation — Agriculture
  • · Document available — needs validation — Housing extension
  • · Document available — needs validation — New housing
  • · Document available — needs validation — Housing reconstruction
  • · Document available — needs validation — Industry
  • · Document available — needs validation — Rural tourism in an existing building
  • · Document available — needs validation — Tourist housing in an existing building
  • · Document available — needs validation — New hotel

The conclusions for Commerce, Equipment are still subject to confirmation and could still change.

See sources and details

2 of 11 menu operations have a published framework in this release:

Next scheduled review: 2027-01-16. This is an internal review date, not a legal validity date: the law can change before it.

Per operation

  • Agricultural support — Partial evidence
  • Agriculture — Partial evidence
  • Commerce — Published framework
  • Equipment — Published framework
  • Housing extension — Partial evidence
  • New housing — Partial evidence
  • Housing reconstruction — Partial evidence
  • Industry — Partial evidence
  • Rural tourism in an existing building — Needs confirmation
  • Tourist housing in an existing building — Needs confirmation
  • New hotel — Needs confirmation

This municipality's own plan text

30 document version(s) with 482 citable provisions.

  • · This release was assembled automatically and has not been reviewed by an operator.