VacationSelector

Boston or Munich?

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, 2 points apart

Boston
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Munich
57
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

BostonMunich
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
BostonMunich
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km686
Coast distance1 km579 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Boston and Munich are level on 73.
BostonMunich
Score7373
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4521,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 18 points.18
BostonMunich
Score4361
Museums within 10 km7974
Museums within 2 km of centre2748
Share of museums within 2 km %3465
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Munich leads by 9 points.9
BostonMunich
Score5867
Drinking venues within 4 km8861,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5857
Nightclubs within 4 km43103
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 5 points.5
BostonMunich
Score5348
Protected land share 50 km %1217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %77100
Park area within 2 km116 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 26 points.26
BostonMunich
Score5379
Tourist attractions within 2 km2880
Park area within 2 km116 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 10 points.10
BostonMunich
Score5868
Notable places within 2 km111196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 17 points.17
BostonMunich
Score4360
Price level global10075.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Boston and Munich are level on 56.
BostonMunich
Score5656
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
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). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonMunich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureBostonMunich
Official languageGerman
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 m519 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonMunich
City population675,6471,510,378
People per km²2,9104,861
Museums within 10 km5174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7489
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. 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.