VacationSelector

Antwerp or Portland?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AntwerpPortland
Beaches & swimming. Antwerp and Portland are level on 0.
AntwerpPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance21 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 1 points.1
AntwerpPortland
Score7574
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1641,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4244
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 34 points.34
AntwerpPortland
Score6935
Museums within 10 km4123
Museums within 2 km of centre2715
Share of museums within 2 km %6665
Unesco sites within 50 km90
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 1 points.1
AntwerpPortland
Score5958
Drinking venues within 4 km866942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7655
Nightclubs within 4 km7332
Nature & day trips. Portland leads by 1 points.1
AntwerpPortland
Score3435
Protected land share 50 km %713
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km53 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 12 points.12
AntwerpPortland
Score4634
Tourist attractions within 2 km148
Park area within 2 km53 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 19 points.19
AntwerpPortland
Score5435
Notable places within 2 km8829
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 17 points.17
AntwerpPortland
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 7 points.7
AntwerpPortland
Score5865
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpPortland
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
10 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
Las VegasLAS
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
2 h 5 m
€173-370
PDX · 10 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpPortland
Official languageFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m152 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpPortland
City population529,247652,503
People per km²2,5421,736
Museums within 10 km3817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Distinct cuisines in the centre8082

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.