VacationSelector

Boston or Toledo?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Toledo
40
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.

BostonToledo
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
BostonToledo
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km681
Coast distance1 km320 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 49 points.49
BostonToledo
Score7324
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km327
Museums & heritage. Toledo leads by 3 points.3
BostonToledo
Score4346
Museums within 10 km7919
Museums within 2 km of centre2719
Share of museums within 2 km %34100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Boston leads by 41 points.41
BostonToledo
Score5817
Drinking venues within 4 km886120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5896
Nightclubs within 4 km435
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 25 points.25
BostonToledo
Score5328
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %77100
Park area within 2 km116 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Toledo leads by 1 points.1
BostonToledo
Score5354
Tourist attractions within 2 km2832
Park area within 2 km116 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 12 points.12
BostonToledo
Score5846
Notable places within 2 km11155
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 28 points.28
BostonToledo
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 18 points.18
BostonToledo
Score5674
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months011
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
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Toledo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Toledo
5
6
7
8
10
11
13
12
9
7
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). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 80 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 80 km
BogotaBOG
5 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
10 h 5 m
€963-1395
2 stops
MAD · 80 km
DohaDOH
13 h 0 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
11 h 30 m
€638-793
2 stops
MAD · 80 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

MeasureBostonToledo
Official languageSpanish
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 m523 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonToledo
City population675,64787,216
People per km²2,910376
Museums within 10 km5113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7413
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.