VacationSelector

Catania or Portland?

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

Your match

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

CataniaPortland
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 58 points.58
CataniaPortland
Score580
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km527
Coast distance1 km69 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 25 points.25
CataniaPortland
Score4974
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6371,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1444
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 24 points.24
CataniaPortland
Score5935
Museums within 10 km3423
Museums within 2 km of centre2715
Share of museums within 2 km %7965
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Portland leads by 11 points.11
CataniaPortland
Score4758
Drinking venues within 4 km537942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7555
Nightclubs within 4 km1832
Nature & day trips. Portland leads by 4 points.4
CataniaPortland
Score3135
Protected land share 50 km %1013
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km11 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Catania leads by 2 points.2
CataniaPortland
Score3634
Tourist attractions within 2 km258
Park area within 2 km11 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Catania leads by 4 points.4
CataniaPortland
Score3935
Notable places within 2 km3729
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 25 points.25
CataniaPortland
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 12 points.12
CataniaPortland
Score7765
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Portland
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaPortland
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 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

MeasureCataniaPortland
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
Elevation7 m152 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaPortland
City population311,584652,503
People per km²1,7041,736
Museums within 10 km2517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3082
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.