VacationSelector

Boston or Stockholm?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

BostonStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Boston and Stockholm are level on 60.
BostonStockholm
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km6873
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
BostonStockholm
Score7376
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4521,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3236
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 26 points.26
BostonStockholm
Score4369
Museums within 10 km7974
Museums within 2 km of centre2747
Share of museums within 2 km %3464
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
BostonStockholm
Score5864
Drinking venues within 4 km8861,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5863
Nightclubs within 4 km43106
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 12 points.12
BostonStockholm
Score5341
Protected land share 50 km %127
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7777
Park area within 2 km116 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 4 points.4
BostonStockholm
Score5357
Tourist attractions within 2 km2823
Park area within 2 km116 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 21 points.21
BostonStockholm
Score5879
Notable places within 2 km111357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 14 points.14
BostonStockholm
Score4357
Price level global10080.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. Boston leads by 3 points.3
BostonStockholm
Score5653
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months05
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
3 h 25 m
€90-234
ARN · 36 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
€211-283
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasureBostonStockholm
Official languageSwedish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m22 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonStockholm
City population675,647984,748
People per km²2,9105,260
Museums within 10 km51266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7481
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.