Average Internet Speed in Portugal

Internet in Portugal: what the data shows

At a median 110.1 Mbps download, Portugal sits inside the top tenth of the table: #6 of 119 ranked countries, 3.2× the global median of 33.9 Mbps. The world's fastest median belongs to the United States at 144 Mbps, within striking distance.

The median upload is 70.8 Mbps, about 64% of the download rate: the balance typical of a market mixing fibre with cable or DSL plans. Median latency is 28 ms. That is low enough for responsive video calls and online gaming on a typical connection.

MEO tops the measured providers at 193 Mbps, about 1.8× the national median, so switching networks can matter as much as switching plans.

Desktop and mobile tests land close together (114 and 104 Mbps), so the experience translates across devices; mobile accounts for 42% of tests. By operating system, Mac OS devices record the quickest median (211 Mbps) while Linux sits at 51 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from Portugal most often reached the Lisbon test server (88% of the top-server mix), so the figures reflect the routes everyday traffic actually takes. Every number on this page is a median of single-stream browser tests from the H1 2026 window: Real-World Speed, measured on the open internet rather than inside an ISP's own network. It reads lower than peak-rate tests by design, and every country is measured with the same ruler.