VacationSelector

Orlando or Portland?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families 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.

OrlandoPortland
Beaches & swimming. Orlando and Portland are level on 0.
OrlandoPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance68 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 26 points.26
OrlandoPortland
Score4874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3651,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2144
Museums & heritage. Portland leads by 27 points.27
OrlandoPortland
Score835
Museums within 10 km1123
Museums within 2 km of centre215
Share of museums within 2 km %1865
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Portland leads by 17 points.17
OrlandoPortland
Score4158
Drinking venues within 4 km344942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6355
Nightclubs within 4 km3932
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 9 points.9
OrlandoPortland
Score4435
Protected land share 50 km %1513
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 55 points.55
OrlandoPortland
Score8934
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km202
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares37 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km8
Sights concentration. Portland leads by 19 points.19
OrlandoPortland
Score1635
Notable places within 2 km1029
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Orlando and Portland are level on 43.
OrlandoPortland
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 9 points.9
OrlandoPortland
Score7465
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
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. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoPortland
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
4 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DenverDEN, APA
3 h 35 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 30 m
€167-182
PDX · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
BostonBOS, PSM
2 h 45 m
€176-244
MCO · 14 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 30 m
€195-271
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
GuadalajaraGDL
3 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 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

MeasureOrlandoPortland
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
Elevation34 m152 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoPortland
City population334,854652,503
People per km²1,0861,736
Museums within 10 km1117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3082

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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). 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.