VacationSelector

Boston or Hong Kong?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

BostonHong Kong
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 27 points.27
BostonHong Kong
Score6087
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km6865
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 15 points.15
BostonHong Kong
Score7388
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4524,325
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3232
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 7 points.7
BostonHong Kong
Score4336
Museums within 10 km7950
Museums within 2 km of centre2717
Share of museums within 2 km %3434
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 13 points.13
BostonHong Kong
Score5871
Drinking venues within 4 km8861,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5131,154
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5859
Nightclubs within 4 km4337
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 11 points.11
BostonHong Kong
Score5364
Protected land share 50 km %128
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7729
Park area within 2 km116 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 5 points.5
BostonHong Kong
Score5358
Tourist attractions within 2 km2827
Park area within 2 km116 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 11 points.11
BostonHong Kong
Score5869
Notable places within 2 km111204
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 20 points.20
BostonHong Kong
Score4363
Price level global10072
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 18 points.18
BostonHong Kong
Score5674
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C19.4 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm23 mm to 493 mm
Dry months04
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5

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). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonHong Kong
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 35 m
€289-344
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
€211-283
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
5 h 0 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 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

MeasureBostonHong Kong
Official languageStandard Chinese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911999
Elevation43 m7 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonHong Kong
City population675,6477,413,070
People per km²2,910
Museums within 10 km5139
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7476
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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. 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.