VacationSelector

Nice or Portland?

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

Your match

Nice
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

NicePortland
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 73 points.73
NicePortland
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km7027
Coast distance1 km69 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 5 points.5
NicePortland
Score6974
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2311,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2844
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 11 points.11
NicePortland
Score4635
Museums within 10 km2723
Museums within 2 km of centre1415
Share of museums within 2 km %5265
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Portland leads by 14 points.14
NicePortland
Score4458
Drinking venues within 4 km428942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9155
Nightclubs within 4 km2632
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 22 points.22
NicePortland
Score5735
Protected land share 50 km %2413
Landscape blanket share 50 km %203
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Portland leads by 4 points.4
NicePortland
Score3034
Tourist attractions within 2 km48
Park area within 2 km56 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Nice leads by 12 points.12
NicePortland
Score4735
Notable places within 2 km6029
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 19 points.19
NicePortland
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 9 points.9
NicePortland
Score7465
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Portland
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNicePortland
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 50 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
4 h 5 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 25 m
no fares
NCE · 6 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 2026-08 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

MeasureNicePortland
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m152 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNicePortland
City population357,737652,503
People per km²4,9751,736
Museums within 10 km1617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6582
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.