VacationSelector

Frankfurt or Portland?

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

Your match

Frankfurt
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on places to eat and year-round weather 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.

FrankfurtPortland
Beaches & swimming. Frankfurt and Portland are level on 0.
FrankfurtPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km427
Coast distance327 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 4 points.4
FrankfurtPortland
Score7074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1601,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3144
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 34 points.34
FrankfurtPortland
Score6935
Museums within 10 km7923
Museums within 2 km of centre4315
Share of museums within 2 km %5465
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 1 points.1
FrankfurtPortland
Score5958
Drinking venues within 4 km931942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7455
Nightclubs within 4 km5632
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 29 points.29
FrankfurtPortland
Score6435
Protected land share 50 km %2813
Landscape blanket share 50 km %113
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km124 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 34 points.34
FrankfurtPortland
Score6834
Tourist attractions within 2 km458
Park area within 2 km124 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 26 points.26
FrankfurtPortland
Score6135
Notable places within 2 km12929
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Frankfurt leads by 17 points.17
FrankfurtPortland
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 3 points.3
FrankfurtPortland
Score6265
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months13
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtPortland
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 25 m
€628-763
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
10 h 20 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DenverDEN, APA
10 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 30 m
€167-182
PDX · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 20 m
€656-803
2 stops
FRA · 13 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
10 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
Las VegasLAS
11 h 15 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€173-370
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

MeasureFrankfurtPortland
Official languageGerman
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
Elevation101 m152 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtPortland
City population775,790652,503
People per km²3,1241,736
Museums within 10 km5317
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre7182

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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.