VacationSelector

Boston or Orlando?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families 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.

BostonOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
BostonOrlando
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km681
Coast distance1 km68 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 25 points.25
BostonOrlando
Score7348
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3221
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 35 points.35
BostonOrlando
Score438
Museums within 10 km7911
Museums within 2 km of centre272
Share of museums within 2 km %3418
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Boston leads by 17 points.17
BostonOrlando
Score5841
Drinking venues within 4 km886344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5863
Nightclubs within 4 km4339
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 9 points.9
BostonOrlando
Score5344
Protected land share 50 km %1215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %77100
Park area within 2 km116 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 36 points.36
BostonOrlando
Score5389
Tourist attractions within 2 km28
Park area within 2 km116 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km020
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 42 points.42
BostonOrlando
Score5816
Notable places within 2 km11110
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Boston and Orlando are level on 43.
BostonOrlando
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 18 points.18
BostonOrlando
Score5674
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm46 mm to 203 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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Orlando
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). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonOrlando
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
€211-283
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 25 m
€175-234
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 35 m
€289-344
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
1 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
€126-198
MCO · 14 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 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

MeasureBostonOrlando
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 m34 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonOrlando
City population675,647334,854
People per km²2,9101,086
Museums within 10 km5111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7430
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.