VacationSelector

Boston or Venice?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Boston
55
match

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

Venice
57
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.

BostonVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 9 points.9
BostonVenice
Score6069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km6820
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 28 points.28
BostonVenice
Score7345
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3210
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 29 points.29
BostonVenice
Score4372
Museums within 10 km7957
Museums within 2 km of centre2745
Share of museums within 2 km %3479
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Boston leads by 23 points.23
BostonVenice
Score5835
Drinking venues within 4 km886342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5889
Nightclubs within 4 km433
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 36 points.36
BostonVenice
Score5317
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7770
Park area within 2 km116 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 4 points.4
BostonVenice
Score5357
Tourist attractions within 2 km2872
Park area within 2 km116 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 25 points.25
BostonVenice
Score5883
Notable places within 2 km111464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 25 points.25
BostonVenice
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 10 points.10
BostonVenice
Score5666
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
DublinDUB
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
3 h 55 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

MeasureBostonVenice
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m2 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonVenice
City population675,647250,369
People per km²2,910602
Museums within 10 km5152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre7446
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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.