VacationSelector

Portland or Valencia?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Portland
42
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

PortlandValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
PortlandValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km2712
Coast distance69 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 4 points.4
PortlandValencia
Score7478
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0111,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4433
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 20 points.20
PortlandValencia
Score3555
Museums within 10 km2359
Museums within 2 km of centre1526
Share of museums within 2 km %6544
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 12 points.12
PortlandValencia
Score5870
Drinking venues within 4 km9421,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre518957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5563
Nightclubs within 4 km32108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 18 points.18
PortlandValencia
Score3553
Protected land share 50 km %1310
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km37 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 8 points.8
PortlandValencia
Score3442
Tourist attractions within 2 km812
Park area within 2 km37 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 17 points.17
PortlandValencia
Score3552
Notable places within 2 km2978
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 28 points.28
PortlandValencia
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 19 points.19
PortlandValencia
Score6584
Monthly daytime high7.9 °C to 27.7 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 145 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months38
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Portland
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Portland
No sunshine record
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortlandValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
7 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
ALC · 133 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

MeasurePortlandValencia
Official languageSpanish
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 m15 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandValencia
City population652,503840,792
People per km²1,7366,242
Museums within 10 km1746
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre8292
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.