VacationSelector

Portland or Toronto?

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 and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
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.

PortlandToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
PortlandToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km2758
Coast distance69 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 8 points.8
PortlandToronto
Score7482
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0112,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4439
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 8 points.8
PortlandToronto
Score3543
Museums within 10 km2335
Museums within 2 km of centre1525
Share of museums within 2 km %6571
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
PortlandToronto
Score5869
Drinking venues within 4 km9421,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre518966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5564
Nightclubs within 4 km32103
Nature & day trips. Portland leads by 9 points.9
PortlandToronto
Score3526
Protected land share 50 km %132
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km37 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 23 points.23
PortlandToronto
Score3457
Tourist attractions within 2 km823
Park area within 2 km37 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 26 points.26
PortlandToronto
Score3561
Notable places within 2 km29128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
PortlandToronto
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 10 points.10
PortlandToronto
Score6555
Monthly daytime high7.9 °C to 27.7 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 145 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Portland
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortlandToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
2 h 35 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
1 h 20 m
€183-189
YYZ · 20 km
CancunCUN
5 h 40 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DenverDEN, APA
2 h 30 m
€167-182
PDX · 10 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 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 2026-09 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

MeasurePortlandToronto
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation152 m76 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandToronto
City population652,5032,794,356
People per km²1,7364,434
Museums within 10 km1732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre82102
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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. 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.