VacationSelector

Granada or Portland?

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

Your match

Granada
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

GranadaPortland
Beaches & swimming. Granada and Portland are level on 0.
GranadaPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km027
Coast distance48 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 7 points.7
GranadaPortland
Score6774
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8721,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3444
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 13 points.13
GranadaPortland
Score4835
Museums within 10 km2823
Museums within 2 km of centre2615
Share of museums within 2 km %9365
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Portland leads by 6 points.6
GranadaPortland
Score5258
Drinking venues within 4 km637942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7855
Nightclubs within 4 km4632
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 28 points.28
GranadaPortland
Score6335
Protected land share 50 km %2713
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %96100
Park area within 2 km46 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 22 points.22
GranadaPortland
Score5634
Tourist attractions within 2 km608
Park area within 2 km46 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Granada leads by 9 points.9
GranadaPortland
Score4435
Notable places within 2 km5029
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 28 points.28
GranadaPortland
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 9 points.9
GranadaPortland
Score7465
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months73
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaPortland
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
4 h 30 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
7 h 45 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

MeasureGranadaPortland
Official languageSpanish
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
Elevation693 m152 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaPortland
City population233,975652,503
People per km²2,6591,736
Museums within 10 km1917
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre6282

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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.