VacationSelector

Boston or Strasbourg?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
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.

BostonStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
BostonStrasbourg
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km689
Coast distance1 km398 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 6 points.6
BostonStrasbourg
Score7367
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3236
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 2 points.2
BostonStrasbourg
Score4341
Museums within 10 km7923
Museums within 2 km of centre2714
Share of museums within 2 km %3461
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Boston leads by 22 points.22
BostonStrasbourg
Score5836
Drinking venues within 4 km886305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5887
Nightclubs within 4 km4317
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 1 points.1
BostonStrasbourg
Score5354
Protected land share 50 km %1237
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %77100
Park area within 2 km116 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 15 points.15
BostonStrasbourg
Score5338
Tourist attractions within 2 km289
Park area within 2 km116 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Boston and Strasbourg are level on 58.
BostonStrasbourg
Score5858
Notable places within 2 km111109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 19 points.19
BostonStrasbourg
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 7 points.7
BostonStrasbourg
Score5663
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm34 mm to 77 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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Strasbourg
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
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonStrasbourg
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
NiceNCE
7 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 20 m
€81-198
SXB · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
2 h 25 m
€218-258
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€133-212
1 stop
SXB · 10 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
€211-283
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 25 m
€175-234
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
Abu DhabiAUH
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
6 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureBostonStrasbourg
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m132 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonStrasbourg
City population675,647293,771
People per km²2,9103,752
Museums within 10 km5121
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7487
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.