VacationSelector

Portland or Shanghai?

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

Your match

Portland
42
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and value for money 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.

PortlandShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Shanghai leads by 17 points.17
PortlandShanghai
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km270
Coast distance69 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai leads by 10 points.10
PortlandShanghai
Score3545
Museums within 10 km23108
Museums within 2 km of centre1528
Share of museums within 2 km %6526
Unesco sites within 50 km00
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Shanghai leads by 7 points.7
PortlandShanghai
Score3542
Protected land share 50 km %139
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %10082
Park area within 2 km37 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 47 points.47
PortlandShanghai
Score3481
Tourist attractions within 2 km886
Park area within 2 km37 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km210
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 16 points.16
PortlandShanghai
Score3551
Notable places within 2 km2973
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 36 points.36
PortlandShanghai
Score4379
Price level global10049
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Portland and Shanghai are level on 65.
PortlandShanghai
Score6565
Monthly daytime high7.9 °C to 27.7 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 145 mm43 mm to 216 mm
Dry months30
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
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Portland
No coastline within reach
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Portland
No sunshine record
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromPortlandShanghai
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
12 h 55 m
€606-798
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
14 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
1 h 10 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
4 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 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

MeasurePortlandShanghai
Official languagePutonghua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation152 m4 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandShanghai
City population652,50324,870,895
People per km²1,7363,922
Museums within 10 km1744
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre8264
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.