VacationSelector

Naples or Portland?

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

Your match

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on 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.

NaplesPortland
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 76 points.76
NaplesPortland
Score760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km2927
Coast distance1 km69 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 28 points.28
NaplesPortland
Score4674
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2441,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km744
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 43 points.43
NaplesPortland
Score7835
Museums within 10 km8423
Museums within 2 km of centre6815
Share of museums within 2 km %8165
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Naples leads by 8 points.8
NaplesPortland
Score6658
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6955
Nightclubs within 4 km4032
Nature & day trips. Naples leads by 2 points.2
NaplesPortland
Score3735
Protected land share 50 km %713
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km41 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 7 points.7
NaplesPortland
Score4134
Tourist attractions within 2 km118
Park area within 2 km41 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 43 points.43
NaplesPortland
Score7835
Notable places within 2 km35129
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 25 points.25
NaplesPortland
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 8 points.8
NaplesPortland
Score7365
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months33
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
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Portland
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNaplesPortland
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
10 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
10 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
9 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
5 h 15 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

MeasureNaplesPortland
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation17 m152 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesPortland
City population913,462652,503
People per km²7,6761,736
Museums within 10 km6517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre3182
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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.