VacationSelector

Boston or Kotor?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Kotor
36
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.

BostonKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 17 points.17
BostonKotor
Score6077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km6850
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 47 points.47
BostonKotor
Score7326
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,45271
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3219
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 15 points.15
BostonKotor
Score4328
Museums within 10 km797
Museums within 2 km of centre273
Share of museums within 2 km %3443
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Boston leads by 54 points.54
BostonKotor
Score584
Drinking venues within 4 km88646
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre51338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5883
Nightclubs within 4 km433
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 38 points.38
BostonKotor
Score5315
Protected land share 50 km %1210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %7766
Park area within 2 km116 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 44 points.44
BostonKotor
Score539
Tourist attractions within 2 km288
Park area within 2 km116 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 37 points.37
BostonKotor
Score5821
Notable places within 2 km11113
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 44 points.44
BostonKotor
Score4387
Price level global10038.9
Daily budget€95
Year-round weather. Kotor leads by 5 points.5
BostonKotor
Score5661
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm38 mm to 256 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
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Kotor
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
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kotor
10
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
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3

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). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonKotor
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
DublinDUB
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 0 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 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

MeasureBostonKotor
Official languageMontenegrin
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 destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonKotor
City population675,647562
People per km²2,910
Museums within 10 km513
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7427
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.