VacationSelector

Atlanta or Portland?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on sights concentration and year-round weather with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

AtlantaPortland
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Portland are level on 0.
AtlantaPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km027
Coast distance373 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 15 points.15
AtlantaPortland
Score5974
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7391,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2344
Museums & heritage. Atlanta and Portland are level on 35.
AtlantaPortland
Score3535
Museums within 10 km4123
Museums within 2 km of centre1615
Share of museums within 2 km %3965
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Portland leads by 9 points.9
AtlantaPortland
Score4958
Drinking venues within 4 km531942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5355
Nightclubs within 4 km4632
Nature & day trips. Portland leads by 4 points.4
AtlantaPortland
Score3135
Protected land share 50 km %113
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Portland leads by 2 points.2
AtlantaPortland
Score3234
Tourist attractions within 2 km28
Park area within 2 km113 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Atlanta leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaPortland
Score4035
Notable places within 2 km3929
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Atlanta and Portland are level on 43.
AtlantaPortland
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 2 points.2
AtlantaPortland
Score6765
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaPortland
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 20 m
€165-240
1 stop
ATL · 14 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
3 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DenverDEN, APA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 30 m
€167-182
PDX · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 5 m
€69-120
ATL · 14 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
GuadalajaraGDL
3 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaPortland
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation225 m152 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaPortland
City population498,715652,503
People per km²1,4331,736
Museums within 10 km2717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5682

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.