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Bordeaux or Portland?

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

Your match

Bordeaux
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

BordeauxPortland
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Portland are level on 0.
BordeauxPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km427
Coast distance18 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxPortland
Score6874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9751,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3244
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 20 points.20
BordeauxPortland
Score5535
Museums within 10 km3523
Museums within 2 km of centre1715
Share of museums within 2 km %4965
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Portland leads by 10 points.10
BordeauxPortland
Score4858
Drinking venues within 4 km546942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7855
Nightclubs within 4 km3232
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 16 points.16
BordeauxPortland
Score5135
Protected land share 50 km %3513
Landscape blanket share 50 km %353
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 11 points.11
BordeauxPortland
Score4534
Tourist attractions within 2 km218
Park area within 2 km43 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 10 points.10
BordeauxPortland
Score4535
Notable places within 2 km5129
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxPortland
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 3 points.3
BordeauxPortland
Score6865
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 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
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
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
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxPortland
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
10 h 30 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

MeasureBordeauxPortland
Official languageFrench
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
Elevation1 m152 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxPortland
City population267,991652,503
People per km²5,4251,736
Museums within 10 km1817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8182

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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.