The 20 most climate-resilient places in Portugal
Ranked on the climate pillar alone: comfort through the year, together with wildfire and seismic exposure. The worst active hazard carries the family — an absent hazard cannot average a certain one away.
- Drawn
- Jul 31, 2026
- Ranked from
- 302 municipalities
- Excluded, provisional
- 0
- Scoring model
- 2026.12-momentum-v1
| # | Municipality | Province | Population | Climate & risk score | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angra do Heroísmo | Açores | 34,782 | 98/100 | B |
| 1 | Horta | Açores | 14,995 | 98/100 | B |
| 1 | Lajes do Pico | Açores | 4,530 | 98/100 | B |
| 1 | Madalena | Açores | 6,613 | 98/100 | B |
| 1 | Nordeste | Açores | 4,401 | 98/100 | B |
| 1 | Ponta delgada | Açores | 70,946 | 98/100 | B |
| 1 | Porto Santo | Madeira | 6,345 | 98/100 | A |
| 1 | Povoação | Açores | 5,643 | 98/100 | B |
| 1 | Praia da Vitória | Açores | 19,740 | 98/100 | B |
| 1 | Ribeira Grande | Açores | 31,694 | 98/100 | B |
| 1 | Santa Cruz da Graciosa | Açores | 4,123 | 98/100 | B |
| 1 | Santa Cruz das Flores | Açores | 2,038 | 98/100 | C |
| 1 | São Roque do Pico | Açores | 3,408 | 98/100 | B |
| 1 | Velas | Açores | 5,010 | 98/100 | B |
| 1 | Vila do Porto | Açores | 5,549 | 98/100 | C |
| 1 | Vila Franca do Campo | Açores | 10,201 | 98/100 | B |
| 17 | Esposende | Braga | 37,866 | 94/100 | A |
| 17 | Lourinhã | Lisboa | 29,007 | 94/100 | A |
| 19 | Mafra | Lisboa | 93,994 | 93/100 | A |
| 19 | Mira | Coimbra | 12,576 | 93/100 | B |
What this table leaves out, and why
- 0 municipalities were dropped for a provisional grade. Where one of the five pillars has no data for a town, the site fills it with a neutral value and marks the grade provisional. That is fair on the town's own page, where the marker is visible. In a ranking it is not: a town competing on two measured pillars and three neutral ones would place on the strength of what we do not know about it.
- 6 were below the population floor of 2,000 inhabitants. Percentile scores are unstable where a single amenity or a single housing development moves the whole figure, and those places sort to the top of an ungated list.
- Tied towns share a rank. Scores are published as whole numbers and they saturate at the top of a table, so several towns here hold the same score and therefore the same position. Where a tie has to be broken to fit twenty rows, it is broken alphabetically — which is arbitrary, and is why the rank is shared rather than invented.
- The ranking is within Portugal, not across Europe. Each pillar is a percentile against that country's own distribution, so a Spanish 80 and an Italian 80 are two statements about two different populations. Pooling them would rank countries, not towns.
- This is a municipality, not a house. Everything here describes the place — its climate, its hazards, its services, its market. It says nothing about any individual property in it.
Computed under scoring model 2026.12-momentum-v1. A ranking published under a different model version is not directly comparable with this one — the weights or the inputs changed, so a town moving between two editions may be the model moving rather than the town.
Using it
Free to reproduce, in whole or in part, with attribution to Terragrado and a link to this page or to the methodology. The CSV carries the same rows plus the edition, the model version and a link to each town's page, so a reader can check any line of it.
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