VacationSelector

Portland or York?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Portland
42
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

PortlandYork
Beaches & swimming. Portland and York are level on 0.
PortlandYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km272
Coast distance69 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 20 points.20
PortlandYork
Score7454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,011361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4431
Museums & heritage. York leads by 11 points.11
PortlandYork
Score3546
Museums within 10 km2318
Museums within 2 km of centre1516
Share of museums within 2 km %6589
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Portland leads by 15 points.15
PortlandYork
Score5843
Drinking venues within 4 km942450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre518353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5578
Nightclubs within 4 km3214
Nature & day trips. Portland leads by 2 points.2
PortlandYork
Score3533
Protected land share 50 km %1317
Landscape blanket share 50 km %316
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km37 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 9 points.9
PortlandYork
Score3443
Tourist attractions within 2 km813
Park area within 2 km37 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. York leads by 4 points.4
PortlandYork
Score3539
Notable places within 2 km2937
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. York leads by 11 points.11
PortlandYork
Score4354
Price level global10084.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 9 points.9
PortlandYork
Score6556
Monthly daytime high7.9 °C to 27.7 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 145 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months31
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Portland
No sunshine record
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromPortlandYork
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Las VegasLAS
2 h 5 m
€173-370
PDX · 10 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
7 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
CancunCUN
5 h 40 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
5 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasurePortlandYork
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation152 m25 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandYork
City population652,503208,400
People per km²1,736766
Museums within 10 km1724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre8254

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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. 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.