VacationSelector

Miami or Portland?

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

Your match

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

MiamiPortland
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
MiamiPortland
Score950
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km2027
Coast distance1 km69 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 9 points.9
MiamiPortland
Score6574
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8981,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2944
Museums & heritage. Portland leads by 12 points.12
MiamiPortland
Score2335
Museums within 10 km2823
Museums within 2 km of centre615
Share of museums within 2 km %2165
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Portland leads by 8 points.8
MiamiPortland
Score5058
Drinking venues within 4 km538942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre287518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5355
Nightclubs within 4 km6332
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 37 points.37
MiamiPortland
Score7235
Protected land share 50 km %1613
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %48100
Park area within 2 km50 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Miami leads by 10 points.10
MiamiPortland
Score4434
Tourist attractions within 2 km148
Park area within 2 km50 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Miami leads by 7 points.7
MiamiPortland
Score4235
Notable places within 2 km4529
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Miami and Portland are level on 43.
MiamiPortland
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 9 points.9
MiamiPortland
Score7465
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Portland
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9

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

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiPortland
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DenverDEN, APA
3 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€167-182
PDX · 10 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
5 h 50 m
€344-394
MIA · 7 km
55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 45 m
€144-205
MIA · 7 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 30 m
€103-188
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
4 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
GuadalajaraGDL
3 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
10 h 30 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

MeasureMiamiPortland
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m152 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiPortland
City population442,241652,503
People per km²3,0461,736
Museums within 10 km1717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3982
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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). 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.