VacationSelector

Boston or Porto?

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

Your match

Boston
55
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BostonPorto
Beaches & swimming. Boston and Porto are level on 60.
BostonPorto
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km6852
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 5 points.5
BostonPorto
Score7368
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4521,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3227
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 28 points.28
BostonPorto
Score4371
Museums within 10 km79101
Museums within 2 km of centre2757
Share of museums within 2 km %3456
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Boston and Porto are level on 58.
BostonPorto
Score5858
Drinking venues within 4 km886900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5863
Nightclubs within 4 km4338
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 20 points.20
BostonPorto
Score5333
Protected land share 50 km %127
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7761
Park area within 2 km116 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 12 points.12
BostonPorto
Score5365
Tourist attractions within 2 km28122
Park area within 2 km116 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 4 points.4
BostonPorto
Score5854
Notable places within 2 km11185
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 31 points.31
BostonPorto
Score4374
Price level global10055.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 15 points.15
BostonPorto
Score5671
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months03
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
10
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
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
6 h 40 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ZurichZRH
7 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
€211-283
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasureBostonPorto
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m104 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonPorto
City population675,647231,800
People per km²2,9105,599
Museums within 10 km5142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7470
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. 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.