VacationSelector

Boston or Faro?

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 nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Faro
47
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

BostonFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 1 points.1
BostonFaro
Score6061
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km6813
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 29 points.29
BostonFaro
Score7344
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 21 points.21
BostonFaro
Score4322
Museums within 10 km799
Museums within 2 km of centre278
Share of museums within 2 km %3489
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Boston leads by 37 points.37
BostonFaro
Score5821
Drinking venues within 4 km886143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5886
Nightclubs within 4 km438
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 4 points.4
BostonFaro
Score5357
Protected land share 50 km %1211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7742
Park area within 2 km116 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 17 points.17
BostonFaro
Score5336
Tourist attractions within 2 km2810
Park area within 2 km116 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 36 points.36
BostonFaro
Score5822
Notable places within 2 km11114
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 31 points.31
BostonFaro
Score4374
Price level global10055.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 27 points.27
BostonFaro
Score5683
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months06
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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

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). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
€211-283
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
LisbonLIS
6 h 40 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
PortoOPO
6 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 15 m
€37-132
FAO · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 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

MeasureBostonFaro
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m10 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonFaro
City population675,64764,560
People per km²2,910319
Museums within 10 km512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7434
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.