VacationSelector

Boston or Vienna?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
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.

BostonVienna
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
BostonVienna
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km6822
Coast distance1 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 4 points.4
BostonVienna
Score7377
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4521,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3237
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 38 points.38
BostonVienna
Score4381
Museums within 10 km79192
Museums within 2 km of centre27110
Share of museums within 2 km %3457
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 16 points.16
BostonVienna
Score5874
Drinking venues within 4 km8861,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5131,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5856
Nightclubs within 4 km43108
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 21 points.21
BostonVienna
Score5332
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %77100
Park area within 2 km116 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 16 points.16
BostonVienna
Score5369
Tourist attractions within 2 km2846
Park area within 2 km116 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 17 points.17
BostonVienna
Score5875
Notable places within 2 km111287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 16 points.16
BostonVienna
Score4359
Price level global10076.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 5 points.5
BostonVienna
Score5661
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
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
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
CancunCUN
3 h 55 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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

MeasureBostonVienna
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonVienna
City population675,6472,028,289
People per km²2,9104,890
Museums within 10 km51152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre74113
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.