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Maastricht or Portland?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

MaastrichtPortland
Beaches & swimming. Maastricht and Portland are level on 0.
MaastrichtPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km627
Coast distance118 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 26 points.26
MaastrichtPortland
Score4874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3381,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2244
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 18 points.18
MaastrichtPortland
Score5335
Museums within 10 km2323
Museums within 2 km of centre1315
Share of museums within 2 km %5765
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Portland leads by 28 points.28
MaastrichtPortland
Score3058
Drinking venues within 4 km223942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8255
Nightclubs within 4 km1332
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 2 points.2
MaastrichtPortland
Score3735
Protected land share 50 km %1913
Landscape blanket share 50 km %113
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km33 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 12 points.12
MaastrichtPortland
Score4634
Tourist attractions within 2 km158
Park area within 2 km33 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Maastricht leads by 1 points.1
MaastrichtPortland
Score3635
Notable places within 2 km3229
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 15 points.15
MaastrichtPortland
Score5843
Price level global79.2100
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 6 points.6
MaastrichtPortland
Score5965
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtPortland
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 85 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
3 h 10 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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

MeasureMaastrichtPortland
Official languageDutch
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 number112 or 911911
Elevation49 m152 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtPortland
City population120,227652,503
People per km²2,0001,736
Museums within 10 km2117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre3382

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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.