VacationSelector

Boston or Copenhagen?

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

Your match

Boston
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

BostonCopenhagen
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 6 points.6
BostonCopenhagen
Score6054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km6817
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Boston and Copenhagen are level on 73.
BostonCopenhagen
Score7373
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4521,183
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3237
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 32 points.32
BostonCopenhagen
Score4375
Museums within 10 km7983
Museums within 2 km of centre2751
Share of museums within 2 km %3461
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 9 points.9
BostonCopenhagen
Score5867
Drinking venues within 4 km8861,384
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513806
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5858
Nightclubs within 4 km4364
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 3 points.3
BostonCopenhagen
Score5350
Protected land share 50 km %125
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7739
Park area within 2 km116 hectares138 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 18 points.18
BostonCopenhagen
Score5371
Tourist attractions within 2 km2854
Park area within 2 km116 hectares138 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 16 points.16
BostonCopenhagen
Score5874
Notable places within 2 km111273
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Copenhagen leads by 9 points.9
BostonCopenhagen
Score4352
Price level global10087.8
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Boston leads by 1 points.1
BostonCopenhagen
Score5655
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C3.6 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm28 mm to 74 mm
Dry months03
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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Copenhagen
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonCopenhagen
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
€211-283
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 25 m
€175-234
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
DohaDOH
13 h 0 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
CPH · 8 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

MeasureBostonCopenhagen
Official languageDanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Danish Krone (DKK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCEFK230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m14 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonCopenhagen
City population675,647667,099
People per km²2,9107,339
Museums within 10 km5172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre7482
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). 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. 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.