VacationSelector

London or Portland?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on 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.

LondonPortland
Beaches & swimming. London and Portland are level on 0.
LondonPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4727
Coast distance43 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 14 points.14
LondonPortland
Score8874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3171,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4044
Museums & heritage. London leads by 37 points.37
LondonPortland
Score7235
Museums within 10 km14823
Museums within 2 km of centre4915
Share of museums within 2 km %3365
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. London leads by 37 points.37
LondonPortland
Score9558
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4655
Nightclubs within 4 km31232
Nature & day trips. London leads by 5 points.5
LondonPortland
Score4035
Protected land share 50 km %1613
Landscape blanket share 50 km %143
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 41 points.41
LondonPortland
Score7534
Tourist attractions within 2 km858
Park area within 2 km84 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. London leads by 54 points.54
LondonPortland
Score8935
Notable places within 2 km64929
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. London leads by 11 points.11
LondonPortland
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 2 points.2
LondonPortland
Score6365
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLondonPortland
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
10 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
9 h 45 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DenverDEN, APA
9 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 30 m
€167-182
PDX · 10 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
9 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
CancunCUN
10 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 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

MeasureLondonPortland
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation4 m152 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonPortland
City population8,799,728652,503
People per km²5,5981,736
Museums within 10 km21517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre11682

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.