VacationSelector

Portland or Strasbourg?

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 nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Strasbourg
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PortlandStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Portland and Strasbourg are level on 0.
PortlandStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km279
Coast distance69 km398 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 7 points.7
PortlandStrasbourg
Score7467
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,011780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4436
Museums & heritage. Strasbourg leads by 6 points.6
PortlandStrasbourg
Score3541
Museums within 10 km2323
Museums within 2 km of centre1514
Share of museums within 2 km %6561
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Portland leads by 22 points.22
PortlandStrasbourg
Score5836
Drinking venues within 4 km942305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre518264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5587
Nightclubs within 4 km3217
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 19 points.19
PortlandStrasbourg
Score3554
Protected land share 50 km %1337
Landscape blanket share 50 km %335
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km37 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Strasbourg leads by 4 points.4
PortlandStrasbourg
Score3438
Tourist attractions within 2 km89
Park area within 2 km37 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 23 points.23
PortlandStrasbourg
Score3558
Notable places within 2 km29109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 19 points.19
PortlandStrasbourg
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 2 points.2
PortlandStrasbourg
Score6563
Monthly daytime high7.9 °C to 27.7 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 145 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months33
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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Portland
No sunshine record
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortlandStrasbourg
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
Las VegasLAS
2 h 5 m
€173-370
PDX · 10 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
BostonBOS, PSM
5 h 25 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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 2026-09, 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

MeasurePortlandStrasbourg
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation152 m132 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandStrasbourg
City population652,503293,771
People per km²1,7363,752
Museums within 10 km1721
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre8287

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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. 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.