VacationSelector

Berlin or Boston?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Boston
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.

BerlinBoston
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
BerlinBoston
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1768
Coast distance142 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 3 points.3
BerlinBoston
Score7073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,452
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3332
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 36 points.36
BerlinBoston
Score7943
Museums within 10 km20079
Museums within 2 km of centre8127
Share of museums within 2 km %4134
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 18 points.18
BerlinBoston
Score7658
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114886
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719513
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3458
Nightclubs within 4 km13543
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 4 points.4
BerlinBoston
Score4953
Protected land share 50 km %2012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km141 hectares116 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 23 points.23
BerlinBoston
Score7653
Tourist attractions within 2 km5428
Park area within 2 km141 hectares116 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 26 points.26
BerlinBoston
Score8458
Notable places within 2 km486111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 17 points.17
BerlinBoston
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 4 points.4
BerlinBoston
Score6056
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C2.9 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinBoston
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€101-133
BER · 19 km
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
€158-204
1 stop
BER · 19 km
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
Abu DhabiAUH
6 h 10 m
no fares
BER · 19 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

MeasureBerlinBoston
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation34 m43 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinBoston
City population3,782,202675,647
People per km²4,2442,910
Museums within 10 km15851
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8674
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.