VacationSelector

Portland or The Hague?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

PortlandThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
PortlandThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2734
Coast distance69 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 4 points.4
PortlandThe Hague
Score7470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,011798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4443
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 27 points.27
PortlandThe Hague
Score3562
Museums within 10 km2346
Museums within 2 km of centre1526
Share of museums within 2 km %6557
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Portland leads by 12 points.12
PortlandThe Hague
Score5846
Drinking venues within 4 km942511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre518288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5556
Nightclubs within 4 km3219
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 19 points.19
PortlandThe Hague
Score3554
Protected land share 50 km %138
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km37 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 22 points.22
PortlandThe Hague
Score3456
Tourist attractions within 2 km810
Park area within 2 km37 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 19 points.19
PortlandThe Hague
Score3554
Notable places within 2 km2986
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 15 points.15
PortlandThe Hague
Score4358
Price level global10079.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 11 points.11
PortlandThe Hague
Score6554
Monthly daytime high7.9 °C to 27.7 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 145 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
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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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Portland
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Portland
No sunshine record
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortlandThe Hague
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Las VegasLAS
2 h 5 m
€173-370
PDX · 10 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
BostonBOS, PSM
5 h 25 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
1 h 5 m
€152-186
AMS · 40 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

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 or 911
Elevation152 m1 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre8277
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.