VacationSelector

Lisbon or Portland?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LisbonPortland
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
LisbonPortland
Score570
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2427
Coast distance2 km69 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
LisbonPortland
Score8074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4961,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3144
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 35 points.35
LisbonPortland
Score7035
Museums within 10 km12423
Museums within 2 km of centre5415
Share of museums within 2 km %4465
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 7 points.7
LisbonPortland
Score6558
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7855
Nightclubs within 4 km6532
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 21 points.21
LisbonPortland
Score5635
Protected land share 50 km %1113
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %54100
Park area within 2 km77 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 35 points.35
LisbonPortland
Score6934
Tourist attractions within 2 km828
Park area within 2 km77 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 31 points.31
LisbonPortland
Score6635
Notable places within 2 km16929
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 31 points.31
LisbonPortland
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 13 points.13
LisbonPortland
Score7865
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months43
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Portland
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
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
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonPortland
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 15 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 40 m
€649-673
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
8 h 30 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
5 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

MeasureLisbonPortland
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m152 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonPortland
City population545,796652,503
People per km²5,4531,736
Museums within 10 km7817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre10682
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.