VacationSelector

Portland or Stockholm?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

PortlandStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
PortlandStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2773
Coast distance69 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 2 points.2
PortlandStockholm
Score7476
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0111,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4436
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 34 points.34
PortlandStockholm
Score3569
Museums within 10 km2374
Museums within 2 km of centre1547
Share of museums within 2 km %6564
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
PortlandStockholm
Score5864
Drinking venues within 4 km9421,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre518689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5563
Nightclubs within 4 km32106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
PortlandStockholm
Score3541
Protected land share 50 km %137
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km37 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 23 points.23
PortlandStockholm
Score3457
Tourist attractions within 2 km823
Park area within 2 km37 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 44 points.44
PortlandStockholm
Score3579
Notable places within 2 km29357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 14 points.14
PortlandStockholm
Score4357
Price level global10080.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 12 points.12
PortlandStockholm
Score6553
Monthly daytime high7.9 °C to 27.7 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 145 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months35
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Portland
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Portland
No sunshine record
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortlandStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
7 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasurePortlandStockholm
Official languageSwedish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation152 m22 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandStockholm
City population652,503984,748
People per km²1,7365,260
Museums within 10 km17266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre8281
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. 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.