Compare Lisbon holiday deals

When to go to Lisbon

Any season works for holidays in Lisbon.

If sun, sand and sea aren’t deal breakers, compare cheap Lisbon holiday deals in spring and autumn – the city doesn’t do downtime on lively or interesting, but simply marks the seasons with lower hotel prices and fewer tourists. So, you can wander undisturbed through the cavernous layers of the fortified tower, Torre de Belém, linger a little longer on the São Jorge Castle battlements and queue for far less time for the custard tarts the city is famous for.

In early summer, cheap Lisbon deals are still up for grabs. This is festival season, when the beaches are heating up but the hordes have yet to descend. It’s the perfect time for grilled sardines and street parties, finding out if fado is your kind of music and bagging good tables in normally impossible-to-book restaurants.

Compare Lisbon to any other European shopping mecca and it fares well here, too. Visit in the lead up to Christmas and you can browse the wares at designer pop-ups in the Time Out Market, scour the shelves of the longstanding Livraria Bertrand bookshop chain, explore festive markets and admire the sparkly, twinkly decorations that adorn just about every city square.