VacationSelector

Munich or Portland?

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

Your match

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

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

Portland
42
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

MunichPortland
Beaches & swimming. Munich and Portland are level on 0.
MunichPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km627
Coast distance579 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 1 points.1
MunichPortland
Score7374
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2801,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3544
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 26 points.26
MunichPortland
Score6135
Museums within 10 km7423
Museums within 2 km of centre4815
Share of museums within 2 km %6565
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Munich leads by 9 points.9
MunichPortland
Score6758
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5755
Nightclubs within 4 km10332
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 13 points.13
MunichPortland
Score4835
Protected land share 50 km %1713
Landscape blanket share 50 km %153
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km199 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 45 points.45
MunichPortland
Score7934
Tourist attractions within 2 km808
Park area within 2 km199 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 33 points.33
MunichPortland
Score6835
Notable places within 2 km19629
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 17 points.17
MunichPortland
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 9 points.9
MunichPortland
Score5665
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichPortland
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
12 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DenverDEN, APA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
2 h 30 m
€167-182
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
CharlotteCLT
9 h 20 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
5 h 0 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

MeasureMunichPortland
Official languageGerman
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 number112911
Elevation519 m152 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichPortland
City population1,510,378652,503
People per km²4,8611,736
Museums within 10 km7417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8982

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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.