VacationSelector

Boston or Dubrovnik?

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

Your match

Boston
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

BostonDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 17 points.17
BostonDubrovnik
Score6077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km6843
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 35 points.35
BostonDubrovnik
Score7338
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3218
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.6
BostonDubrovnik
Score4349
Museums within 10 km7918
Museums within 2 km of centre2717
Share of museums within 2 km %3494
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Boston leads by 38 points.38
BostonDubrovnik
Score5820
Drinking venues within 4 km886128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5886
Nightclubs within 4 km4313
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 48 points.48
BostonDubrovnik
Score535
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %7751
Park area within 2 km116 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 32 points.32
BostonDubrovnik
Score5321
Tourist attractions within 2 km2812
Park area within 2 km116 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 14 points.14
BostonDubrovnik
Score5844
Notable places within 2 km11148
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 37 points.37
BostonDubrovnik
Score4380
Price level global10048.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 9 points.9
BostonDubrovnik
Score5665
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm54 mm to 198 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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

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). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
DublinDUB
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 0 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 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

MeasureBostonDubrovnik
Official languageCroatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m10 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonDubrovnik
City population675,64741,562
People per km²2,910
Museums within 10 km517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7432
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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.