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Bologna or Portland?

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

Your match

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

BolognaPortland
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Portland are level on 0.
BolognaPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km227
Coast distance74 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 16 points.16
BolognaPortland
Score5874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8221,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2044
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 32 points.32
BolognaPortland
Score6735
Museums within 10 km5823
Museums within 2 km of centre4315
Share of museums within 2 km %7465
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Portland leads by 5 points.5
BolognaPortland
Score5358
Drinking venues within 4 km720942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7455
Nightclubs within 4 km3032
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 4 points.4
BolognaPortland
Score3935
Protected land share 50 km %713
Landscape blanket share 50 km %13
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 21 points.21
BolognaPortland
Score5534
Tourist attractions within 2 km328
Park area within 2 km119 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 25 points.25
BolognaPortland
Score6035
Notable places within 2 km12029
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 25 points.25
BolognaPortland
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 2 points.2
BolognaPortland
Score6765
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months53
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaPortland
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
11 h 0 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
5 h 40 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
4 h 5 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 40 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
5 h 15 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBolognaPortland
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation54 m152 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaPortland
City population387,971652,503
People per km²2,7541,736
Museums within 10 km6617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre6282

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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.