VacationSelector

Dublin or Portland?

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

Your match

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

DublinPortland
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinPortland
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1127
Coast distance3 km69 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 4 points.4
DublinPortland
Score7074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9201,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3744
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 20 points.20
DublinPortland
Score5535
Museums within 10 km4723
Museums within 2 km of centre3715
Share of museums within 2 km %7965
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 6 points.6
DublinPortland
Score6458
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7555
Nightclubs within 4 km4032
Nature & day trips. Portland leads by 9 points.9
DublinPortland
Score2635
Protected land share 50 km %313
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 20 points.20
DublinPortland
Score5434
Tourist attractions within 2 km418
Park area within 2 km43 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 27 points.27
DublinPortland
Score6235
Notable places within 2 km14129
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 14 points.14
DublinPortland
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 11 points.11
DublinPortland
Score5465
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Portland
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinPortland
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
9 h 15 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 20 m
€519-589
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
9 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 40 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

MeasureDublinPortland
Official languageEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m152 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinPortland
City population592,713652,503
People per km²5,1541,736
Museums within 10 km4017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7482
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.