VacationSelector

Boston or Mostar?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Mostar
32
match

Wins on value for money and 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.

BostonMostar
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
BostonMostar
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km687
Coast distance1 km44 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 54 points.54
BostonMostar
Score7319
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km329
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 7 points.7
BostonMostar
Score4336
Museums within 10 km7913
Museums within 2 km of centre2712
Share of museums within 2 km %3492
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Boston leads by 36 points.36
BostonMostar
Score5822
Drinking venues within 4 km886154
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513147
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5895
Nightclubs within 4 km438
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 44 points.44
BostonMostar
Score539
Protected land share 50 km %126
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %7799
Park area within 2 km116 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 38 points.38
BostonMostar
Score5315
Tourist attractions within 2 km2810
Park area within 2 km116 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 22 points.22
BostonMostar
Score5836
Notable places within 2 km11131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 45 points.45
BostonMostar
Score4388
Price level global10037.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mostar leads by 5 points.5
BostonMostar
Score5661
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C9.3 °C to 33.4 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm54 mm to 198 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
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Mostar
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Mostar
9
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
Mostar
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

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). Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonMostar
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 95 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
CopenhagenCPH
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 0 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 68 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 68 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
7 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 68 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 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

MeasureBostonMostar
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m60 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonMostar
City population675,647105,448
People per km²2,91090
Museums within 10 km513
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7418
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. 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.