VacationSelector

New York or Portland?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on 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.

New YorkPortland
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
New YorkPortland
Score640
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1727
Coast distance1 km69 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 21 points.21
New YorkPortland
Score9574
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,0321,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3844
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 25 points.25
New YorkPortland
Score6035
Museums within 10 km11923
Museums within 2 km of centre3115
Share of museums within 2 km %2665
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New York leads by 31 points.31
New YorkPortland
Score8958
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4855
Nightclubs within 4 km19232
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 4 points.4
New YorkPortland
Score3935
Protected land share 50 km %413
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km134 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 38 points.38
New YorkPortland
Score7234
Tourist attractions within 2 km378
Park area within 2 km134 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km72
Sights concentration. New York leads by 39 points.39
New YorkPortland
Score7435
Notable places within 2 km26829
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. New York and Portland are level on 43.
New YorkPortland
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 7 points.7
New YorkPortland
Score5865
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Portland
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
New York
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

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkPortland
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 20 m
€314-354
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DenverDEN, APA
3 h 45 m
no fares
LGA · 13 km
2 h 30 m
€167-182
PDX · 10 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 20 m
€201-385
LGA · 13 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 5 m
€203-258
LGA · 13 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
4 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
2 h 5 m
€165-236
EWR · 14 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
BostonBOS, PSM
1 h 0 m
€193-222
JFK · 21 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
GuadalajaraGDL
4 h 50 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
4 h 35 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

MeasureNew YorkPortland
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
Elevation25 m152 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkPortland
City population8,804,190652,503
People per km²7,2561,736
Museums within 10 km15717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre13282
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.