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Where to stay in Massachusetts
This guide covers 26 destinations in Massachusetts, a first-level administrative division of United States, with 113 places to stay between them. The largest by population are Boston, Worcester and Springfield. Across its destinations, July is the month comfortable in the most places. The airport most of them name as their nearest is Boston Logan International Airport (BOS).
- Destinations in this guide
- 26
- Places to stay
- 113
- Comfortable in the most places
- July
- Main airport
- BOSBoston Logan International Airport
- Currency
- USDUnited States dollar
- Time zone
- America/New York
Destinations
Destinations in Massachusetts
Every destination in this guide in Massachusetts, the ones with the most places to stay first. Best months are the months that are comfortable there (average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month); the nearest airport is by straight-line distance from the centre.
| Destination | Population | Places to stay | Nearest airport |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | 675,647 | 56 | BOS · 4 km |
| Cambridge | 118,403 | 8 | BOS · 8 km |
| Waltham | 65,218 | 7 | BED · 11 km |
| Somerville | 81,045 | 5 | BOS · 8 km |
| Peabody | 54,481 | 5 | BOS · 20 km |
| Worcester | 206,518 | 4 | ORH · 6 km |
| Plymouth | 61,217 | 4 | EWB · 40 km |
| Springfield | 155,929 | 3 | BDL · 23 km |
| Haverhill | 67,787 | 3 | MHT · 33 km |
| Brookline | 63,191 | 3 | BOS · 10 km |
| Weymouth | 57,437 | 3 | BOS · 17 km |
| Brockton | 105,643 | 2 | BOS · 31 km |
| Framingham | 72,362 | 2 | BED · 24 km |
| Medford | 59,659 | 2 | BOS · 10 km |
| Chicopee | 55,560 | 2 | BDL · 24 km |
| New Bedford | 101,079 | 1 | EWB · 5 km |
| Lawrence | 89,143 | 1 | BED · 28 km |
| Newton | 88,923 | 1 | BED · 16 km |
| Revere | 62,186 | 1 | BOS · 5 km |
| Lowell | 115,554 | BED · 19 km | |
| Quincy | 101,636 | BOS · 13 km | |
| Lynn | 101,253 | BOS · 13 km | |
| Fall River | 94,000 | EWB · 17 km | |
| Malden | 66,263 | BOS · 9 km | |
| Taunton | 59,408 | EWB · 27 km | |
| Methuen | 53,059 | BED · 30 km |
Where to stay
Hotels in Massachusetts
113 hotels in Massachusetts recorded in Wikidata and not marked closed; the 30 best known are shown, by the number of Wikipedia editions that cover them. Each is listed under the destination it is within 25 km of.
When to go
Best time to visit Massachusetts
From the climate of 26 destinations in Massachusetts with climate data: how many are comfortable each month (average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month), and the typical high and rainfall across them. The month comfortable in the most places: July.
| Month | Comfortable destinations | Typical high | Typical rainfall |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 of 26 | 2 °C | 100 mm |
| February | 0 of 26 | 4 °C | 91 mm |
| March | 0 of 26 | 8 °C | 119 mm |
| April | 0 of 26 | 15 °C | 104 mm |
| May | 0 of 26 | 21 °C | 89 mm |
| June | 0 of 26 | 26 °C | 98 mm |
| July | 3 of 26 | 29 °C | 90 mm |
| August | 1 of 26 | 28 °C | 99 mm |
| September | 0 of 26 | 24 °C | 104 mm |
| October | 0 of 26 | 18 °C | 114 mm |
| November | 0 of 26 | 11 °C | 103 mm |
| December | 0 of 26 | 5 °C | 120 mm |
Typical = the median across the destinations. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Airports serving Massachusetts
The airports with scheduled flights that the destinations in Massachusetts name among their nearest, by how many name each as the nearest. An airport can lie outside the region. Distances are straight lines from a destination's centre.
BOS · Boston Logan International Airport
BED · Laurence G Hanscom Field
EWB · New Bedford Regional Airport
BDL · Bradley International Airport
ORH · Worcester Regional Airport
MHT · Manchester-Boston Regional Airport
NPT · Newport State Airport
PVD · Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport
HVN · Tweed New Haven Airport
PSM · Portsmouth International Airport at Pease
HYA · Cape Cod Gateway Airport
Good to know
Public holidays in Massachusetts, 2026
Shops and offices may close and transport may run reduced timetables on these dates. Source: python-holidays (MIT).
Nationwide in United States
Regional holidays observed in Massachusetts
Nearby
Regions near Massachusetts
Other regions of United States with a page in this guide, nearest first by the straight-line distance between the median positions of their destinations.
Sources: destinations and their regions from Wikidata; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia, ODbL); public holidays from python-holidays (MIT); further hotels from Wikidata. A region has a page here when at least 3 destinations of this guide lie in it. How this guide is made.