VacationSelector

Lyon or Portland?

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

Your match

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

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

Portland
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

LyonPortland
Beaches & swimming. Lyon and Portland are level on 0.
LyonPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2627
Coast distance253 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 5 points.5
LyonPortland
Score7974
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6911,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4044
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 20 points.20
LyonPortland
Score5535
Museums within 10 km5323
Museums within 2 km of centre2515
Share of museums within 2 km %4765
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Lyon and Portland are level on 58.
LyonPortland
Score5858
Drinking venues within 4 km866942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre611518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7155
Nightclubs within 4 km4732
Nature & day trips. Portland leads by 2 points.2
LyonPortland
Score3335
Protected land share 50 km %613
Landscape blanket share 50 km %63
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km120 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 25 points.25
LyonPortland
Score5934
Tourist attractions within 2 km258
Park area within 2 km120 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 19 points.19
LyonPortland
Score5435
Notable places within 2 km8629
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 19 points.19
LyonPortland
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 1 points.1
LyonPortland
Score6465
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonPortland
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 25 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
3 h 45 m
no fares
LYS · 20 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLyonPortland
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation160 m152 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonPortland
City population519,127652,503
People per km²10,8381,736
Museums within 10 km4217
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre14882

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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.