VacationSelector

Boston or Liverpool?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Boston
55
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

Liverpool
55
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

BostonLiverpool
Beaches & swimming. Boston and Liverpool are level on 60.
BostonLiverpool
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km6834
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 13 points.13
BostonLiverpool
Score7360
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452542
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3232
Museums & heritage. Boston and Liverpool are level on 43.
BostonLiverpool
Score4343
Museums within 10 km7923
Museums within 2 km of centre2712
Share of museums within 2 km %3452
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Liverpool leads by 3 points.3
BostonLiverpool
Score5861
Drinking venues within 4 km886977
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513651
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5867
Nightclubs within 4 km4379
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 5 points.5
BostonLiverpool
Score5358
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7760
Park area within 2 km116 hectares81 hectares
Good for families. Liverpool leads by 5 points.5
BostonLiverpool
Score5358
Tourist attractions within 2 km2825
Park area within 2 km116 hectares81 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 8 points.8
BostonLiverpool
Score5850
Notable places within 2 km11168
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Liverpool leads by 11 points.11
BostonLiverpool
Score4354
Price level global10084.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Boston leads by 2 points.2
BostonLiverpool
Score5654
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm51 mm to 95 mm
Dry months00
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
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

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). Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonLiverpool
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
€211-283
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
2 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
BridgetownBGI
4 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
Abu DhabiAUH
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 48 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

MeasureBostonLiverpool
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 m70 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonLiverpool
City population675,647513,441
People per km²2,9104,592
Museums within 10 km5131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7449
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. 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.