VacationSelector

Bangkok or Boston?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Boston
55
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.

BangkokBoston
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 20 points.20
BangkokBoston
Score4060
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km068
Coast distance23 km1 km
Water distance23 km1 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 10 points.10
BangkokBoston
Score8373
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9571,452
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2632
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 3 points.3
BangkokBoston
Score4643
Museums within 10 km10379
Museums within 2 km of centre3027
Share of museums within 2 km %2934
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
BangkokBoston
Score8358
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383886
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396513
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4158
Nightclubs within 4 km7243
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 2 points.2
BangkokBoston
Score5153
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8377
Park area within 2 km42 hectares116 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 4 points.4
BangkokBoston
Score5753
Tourist attractions within 2 km3128
Park area within 2 km42 hectares116 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 10 points.10
BangkokBoston
Score4858
Notable places within 2 km62111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 50 points.50
BangkokBoston
Score9343
Price level global29.7100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Bangkok and Boston are level on 56.
BangkokBoston
Score5656
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C2.9 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm79 mm to 107 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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokBoston
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
SeoulICN, GMP
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
15 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
5 h 35 m
€289-344
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBangkokBoston
Official languageThai
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m43 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokBoston
City population5,676,648675,647
People per km²3,6192,910
Museums within 10 km5951
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9174
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.