VacationSelector

Atlanta or Boston?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Boston
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

AtlantaBoston
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
AtlantaBoston
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km068
Coast distance373 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 14 points.14
AtlantaBoston
Score5973
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7391,452
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2332
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 8 points.8
AtlantaBoston
Score3543
Museums within 10 km4179
Museums within 2 km of centre1627
Share of museums within 2 km %3934
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Boston leads by 9 points.9
AtlantaBoston
Score4958
Drinking venues within 4 km531886
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284513
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5358
Nightclubs within 4 km4643
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 22 points.22
AtlantaBoston
Score3153
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km113 hectares116 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 21 points.21
AtlantaBoston
Score3253
Tourist attractions within 2 km228
Park area within 2 km113 hectares116 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 18 points.18
AtlantaBoston
Score4058
Notable places within 2 km39111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Atlanta and Boston are level on 43.
AtlantaBoston
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaBoston
Score6756
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C2.9 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm79 mm to 107 mm
Dry months00
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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaBoston
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€175-234
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 20 m
€165-240
1 stop
ATL · 14 km
5 h 35 m
€289-344
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
1 h 25 m
€53-169
ATL · 14 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 5 m
€69-120
ATL · 14 km
3 h 35 m
€341-355
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
Abu DhabiAUH
15 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureAtlantaBoston
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation225 m43 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaBoston
City population498,715675,647
People per km²1,4332,910
Museums within 10 km2751
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5674
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.