VacationSelector

Dubrovnik 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

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

DubrovnikPortland
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
DubrovnikPortland
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km4327
Coast distance0 km69 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 36 points.36
DubrovnikPortland
Score3874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2061,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1844
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 14 points.14
DubrovnikPortland
Score4935
Museums within 10 km1823
Museums within 2 km of centre1715
Share of museums within 2 km %9465
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Portland leads by 38 points.38
DubrovnikPortland
Score2058
Drinking venues within 4 km128942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8655
Nightclubs within 4 km1332
Nature & day trips. Portland leads by 30 points.30
DubrovnikPortland
Score535
Protected land share 50 km %413
Landscape blanket share 50 km %43
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km6 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Portland leads by 13 points.13
DubrovnikPortland
Score2134
Tourist attractions within 2 km128
Park area within 2 km6 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 9 points.9
DubrovnikPortland
Score4435
Notable places within 2 km4829
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 37 points.37
DubrovnikPortland
Score8043
Price level global48.5100
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik and Portland are level on 65.
DubrovnikPortland
Score6565
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Portland
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikPortland
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
10 h 5 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

MeasureDubrovnikPortland
Official languageCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m152 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikPortland
City population41,562652,503
People per km²1,736
Museums within 10 km717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3282
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.