VacationSelector

Boston or Interlaken?

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 beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on 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.

BostonInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
BostonInterlaken
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km6812
Coast distance1 km713 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 44 points.44
BostonInterlaken
Score7329
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3217
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 20 points.20
BostonInterlaken
Score4323
Museums within 10 km795
Museums within 2 km of centre272
Share of museums within 2 km %3440
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Boston leads by 54 points.54
BostonInterlaken
Score584
Drinking venues within 4 km88642
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre51338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5890
Nightclubs within 4 km433
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 26 points.26
BostonInterlaken
Score5327
Protected land share 50 km %1219
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %77100
Park area within 2 km116 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 39 points.39
BostonInterlaken
Score5314
Tourist attractions within 2 km2811
Park area within 2 km116 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 36 points.36
BostonInterlaken
Score5822
Notable places within 2 km11114
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Boston leads by 8 points.8
BostonInterlaken
Score4335
Price level global100110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 1 points.1
BostonInterlaken
Score5657
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm34 mm to 68 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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Interlaken
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). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 135 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

MeasureBostonInterlaken
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m571 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonInterlaken
City population675,6476,123
People per km²2,9101,424
Museums within 10 km513
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7422
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. 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.