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Hawthorne Bridge and downtown, Portland
PortlandHawthorne Bridge and downtown
The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The HagueThe skyline reflected in the water

Photos: Portland by Cacophony, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; The Hague by Bráulio jardim, Pexels License.

Portland or The Hague?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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

Choose The Hague for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on The Hague’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, The Hague 38: The Hague leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Portland 68, The Hague 48: Portland leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Portland 38, The Hague 66: The Hague leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Portland 52, The Hague 38: Portland leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Portland 84, The Hague 52: Portland leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Portland 58, The Hague 86: The Hague leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Portland 55, The Hague 72: The Hague leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Portland 62, The Hague 78: The Hague leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Portland 52, The Hague 55: The Hague leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Portland 38, The Hague 35: Portland leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Portland 55, The Hague 58: The Hague leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Portland 42, The Hague 45: The Hague leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Portland and The Hague.

Your match

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

Portland
52match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and food and drink with your weighting.

The Hague
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights 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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

The Hague in July

21 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

The Hague 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.

The Hague's sunshine is measured 60 km from the centre, at De Bilt.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePortlandThe Hague
Official language-Dutch
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 m1 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandThe Hague
City population652,503548,320
People per km²1,7365,589
Museums within 10 km1754
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.