VacationSelector

Boston or Inverness?

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 good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Inverness
25
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BostonInverness
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 32 points.32
BostonInverness
Score6028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km681
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 52 points.52
BostonInverness
Score7321
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452114
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3211
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 23 points.23
BostonInverness
Score4320
Museums within 10 km796
Museums within 2 km of centre275
Share of museums within 2 km %3483
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Boston leads by 43 points.43
BostonInverness
Score5815
Drinking venues within 4 km886113
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre51398
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5887
Nightclubs within 4 km434
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 44 points.44
BostonInverness
Score539
Protected land share 50 km %1212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %7788
Park area within 2 km116 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 53 points.53
BostonInverness
Score530
Tourist attractions within 2 km283
Park area within 2 km116 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 34 points.34
BostonInverness
Score5824
Notable places within 2 km11116
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Inverness leads by 11 points.11
BostonInverness
Score4354
Price level global10084.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Boston leads by 4 points.4
BostonInverness
Score5652
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm40 mm to 72 mm
Dry months01
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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1

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). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonInverness
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
DublinDUB
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
EdinburghEDI
6 h 30 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
SYY · 149 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

MeasureBostonInverness
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation43 m7 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonInverness
City population675,64747,380
People per km²2,9102,289
Museums within 10 km513
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7415
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.