Record stores in Porto
Vinyl hunting in Porto, Porto District? There are 16 record shops mapped here. That's 16 record shops mapped around Porto. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.
This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Porto (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Casa Música de Melres and Music Shop, plus Só Música. If a record shop's missing from Porto's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Porto record lineup
16 mapped within about 40 km:
Casa Música de Melres
Record store
Casa Música de Melres — Record store.
Music Shop
Record store
Music Shop is Record store.
Só Música
Record store
Só Música is Record store.
Rock Music
Record store
Rock Music is Record store.
Tubitek
Record store
Tubitek is Record store on 31 Praça de Dom João I, Porto. Tubitek also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-13:30,14:30-19:30; Su off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
31 Praça de Dom João I, Porto, 4000-295
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-13:30,14:30-19:30; Su off
Phone: +351 222 034 132; +351 939 417 292
Circus Records Record Shop
Record store
Circus Records Record Shop — Record store on 54 Rua do Rosário. Also worth knowing about Circus Records Record Shop: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
54 Rua do Rosário, 4050-519
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-20:00
Phone: +351 222011998
Louie Louie
Record store
Louie Louie — Record store on 536 Rua do Almada. Also worth knowing about Louie Louie: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:30-13:30, 14:30-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
536 Rua do Almada, 4050-034
Hours: Mo-Su 10:30-13:30, 14:30-19:00
Phone: +351 222010384
Scrape Needle
Record store
Scrape Needle is Record store.
SinfoniaSublime Distribution
Record store
SinfoniaSublime Distribution is Record store on 866 Avenida da Liberdade, São João da Madeira. SinfoniaSublime Distribution also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
866 Avenida da Liberdade, São João da Madeira, 3700-164
Caffi
Record store
Caffi is Record store on 281 Rua da Constituição, Porto. Caffi also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:30-12:30,14:30-19:30; Sa 09:30-13:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
281 Rua da Constituição, Porto
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:30-12:30,14:30-19:30; Sa 09:30-13:00
Phone: +351 22 557 3620
Black Mamba Burgers & Records
Record store
Black Mamba Burgers & Records is Record store on 130 Rua Martires da Liberdade.
130 Rua Martires da Liberdade
Matéria Prima
Record store
Matéria Prima — Record store, found on 232 Rua de Miguel Bombarda in Porto. Also worth knowing about Matéria Prima: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 11:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
232 Rua de Miguel Bombarda, Porto, 4050-377
Hours: Mo-Sa 11:00-19:00
Phone: +351 222 011 199
Discos do Baú
Record store
Discos do Baú is Record store.
Socorro
Record store
Socorro is Record store on 44 Rua de Guedes de Azevedo. Socorro also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
44 Rua de Guedes de Azevedo
Lovers & Lollypops
Record store
Lovers & Lollypops is Record store on 143 A Rua de São Victor. Lovers & Lollypops also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-19:00; it has a website with more detail.
143 A Rua de São Victor
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-19:00
Bunker Store
Record store
Bunker Store is Record store on 219 Rua de Passos Manuel. Bunker Store also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
219 Rua de Passos Manuel
Phone: +351 910109693
What the map tells us about record stores in Porto
6 of the 16 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.
5 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.
The Porto record crawl
Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Casa Música de Melres, Music Shop, Só Música, Rock Music, Tubitek on 31 Praça de Dom João I, Circus Records Record Shop on 54 Rua do Rosário, Louie Louie on 536 Rua do Almada, and Scrape Needle. That's 16 stops on the Porto record crawl. 8 more are listed below.
Record digging tips for Porto
A few things worth knowing before you work through Porto's record stores:
- The dollar bin is honest work at Casa Música de Melres. Nobody's getting rich off the dollar bin, but the joy-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable. Flip through all of it.
- Sleeves matter for value at Music Shop. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.
- Genre-hop. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.
- Check Discogs before big purchases. A quick price check on your phone keeps everyone honest — you and the shop.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Porto — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Porto can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 16 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.
We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.
If you run one of the 16 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Record store listings for Porto: 16 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.