VacationSelector

Boston or Miami?

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, 1 point apart

Boston
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BostonMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 35 points.35
BostonMiami
Score6095
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km6820
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 8 points.8
BostonMiami
Score7365
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3229
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 20 points.20
BostonMiami
Score4323
Museums within 10 km7928
Museums within 2 km of centre276
Share of museums within 2 km %3421
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Boston leads by 8 points.8
BostonMiami
Score5850
Drinking venues within 4 km886538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5853
Nightclubs within 4 km4363
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 19 points.19
BostonMiami
Score5372
Protected land share 50 km %1216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7748
Park area within 2 km116 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 9 points.9
BostonMiami
Score5344
Tourist attractions within 2 km2814
Park area within 2 km116 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 16 points.16
BostonMiami
Score5842
Notable places within 2 km11145
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Boston and Miami are level on 43.
BostonMiami
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 18 points.18
BostonMiami
Score5674
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Miami
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). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonMiami
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
€211-283
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 25 m
€175-234
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€127-180
MIA · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
RaleighRDU
1 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 0 m
€156-181
MIA · 7 km
DenverDEN, APA
4 h 0 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
2 h 25 m
€218-258
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 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

MeasureBostonMiami
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation43 m2 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonMiami
City population675,647442,241
People per km²2,9103,046
Museums within 10 km5117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7439
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.