VacationSelector

Portland or Split?

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

Your match

Portland
42
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Split
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

PortlandSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
PortlandSplit
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2787
Coast distance69 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 36 points.36
PortlandSplit
Score7438
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,011268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4415
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 17 points.17
PortlandSplit
Score3552
Museums within 10 km2318
Museums within 2 km of centre1516
Share of museums within 2 km %6589
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Portland leads by 17 points.17
PortlandSplit
Score5841
Drinking venues within 4 km942379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre518263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5569
Nightclubs within 4 km3223
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 3 points.3
PortlandSplit
Score3538
Protected land share 50 km %139
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km37 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Portland leads by 8 points.8
PortlandSplit
Score3426
Tourist attractions within 2 km89
Park area within 2 km37 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Split leads by 7 points.7
PortlandSplit
Score3542
Notable places within 2 km2943
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 37 points.37
PortlandSplit
Score4380
Price level global10048.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 4 points.4
PortlandSplit
Score6569
Monthly daytime high7.9 °C to 27.7 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 145 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months32
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
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Portland
No coastline within reach
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Portland
No sunshine record
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortlandSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 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

MeasurePortlandSplit
Official languageCroatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation152 m0 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandSplit
City population652,503160,577
People per km²1,736
Museums within 10 km1711
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre8231
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. 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. 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. 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.