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Hawthorne Bridge and downtown, Portland
PortlandHawthorne Bridge and downtown
Portofino and its bay from the hillside, Portofino
PortofinoPortofino and its bay from the hillside

Photos: Portland by Cacophony, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Portofino by Michal Osmenda, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Portland or Portofino?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Portland for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Portland’s own page.

Choose Portofino for

  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Portofino’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Portland 20, Portofino 60: Portofino leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Portland 68, Portofino 36: Portland leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Portland 38, Portofino 22: Portland leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Portland 52, Portofino 14: Portland leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Portland 84, Portofino 77: Portland leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Portland 58, Portofino 76: Portofino leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Portland 55, Portofino 33: Portland leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Portland 62, Portofino 50: Portland leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Portland 52, Portofino 29: Portland leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Portland 38, Portofino 9: Portland leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Portland 55, Portofino 7: Portland leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Portland and Portofino are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Portland and Portofino.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Portland
Best match
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Portofino
38match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Portland in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Portofino in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Portofino's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Genova / Sestri.

Portofino has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre). Portofino: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (31 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePortlandPortofino
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation152 m20 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)32 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandPortofino
City population652,503355
People per km²1,736142
Museums within 10 km1714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.