VacationSelector

Paris or Portland?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

ParisPortland
Beaches & swimming. Paris and Portland are level on 0.
ParisPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km227
Coast distance149 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Paris leads by 16 points.16
ParisPortland
Score9074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,7321,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3344
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 41 points.41
ParisPortland
Score7635
Museums within 10 km18523
Museums within 2 km of centre6515
Share of museums within 2 km %3565
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Paris leads by 30 points.30
ParisPortland
Score8858
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4555
Nightclubs within 4 km20132
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 13 points.13
ParisPortland
Score4835
Protected land share 50 km %2813
Landscape blanket share 50 km %263
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km82 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 41 points.41
ParisPortland
Score7534
Tourist attractions within 2 km898
Park area within 2 km82 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 59 points.59
ParisPortland
Score9435
Notable places within 2 km86529
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 19 points.19
ParisPortland
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 1 points.1
ParisPortland
Score6665
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months13
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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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
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

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromParisPortland
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 25 m
€687-789
CDG · 22 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
11 h 0 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 30 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
10 h 10 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DenverDEN, APA
9 h 55 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
2 h 30 m
€167-182
PDX · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
€555-767
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 15 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
1 h 45 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

MeasureParisPortland
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
Elevation27 m152 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisPortland
City population2,103,778652,503
People per km²19,9601,736
Museums within 10 km25117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre16982

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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.