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About Boston summer camps

Prices

  • A typical week of day camp in the Boston area costs about $495, with half of paid options priced between $311 and $699.
  • Median tuition for regular camp hours is $18.33 an hour, and 22% of paid options cost less than $300 a week.
  • A Monday-through-Friday camp week covering 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. typically costs about $670, including listed extended-care fees. The typical fee for paid extended care is about $150 a week.
  • A week of sleepaway camp within 50 miles typically costs about $1,957.

Aid and policies

  • 42% of camps offer financial aid, 49% offer refunds, and 47% are nonprofits.

Hours and extended care

  • 27% of day camp options cover 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. including extended care, and 38 providers usually offer that coverage Monday through Friday.
  • Drop-off by 8 a.m. is available for 34% of day camp options, and 43% allow pickup at 5 p.m. or later.

More options

  • Day camps run during the last week of August, with options from 79 providers last year.
  • For families exploring sleepaway camp close to the Boston area, there are 69 overnight camp providers with venues within 50 miles.
Data is from summer 2026

Based on summer 2026 camp listings.

Area covered

  • U.S. venues within 20 miles of the Boston landing-page center for day camps, and within 50 miles for sleepaway camps.

Prices and care

  • Typical prices are medians (the middle price) of paid camp options. Day-camp weekly tuition is adjusted to five camp days.
  • Sleepaway weekly tuition is adjusted to seven calendar days using the listed session dates.
  • Hourly tuition covers regular camp hours only, excluding extended-care hours and fees.
  • The 8-to-5 weekly price includes required, listed extended-care fees and uses full five-day camp weeks.
  • Separate care prices are medians of listed paid weekly fees. Free care and missing fees are excluded, and packages vary.

How we count

  • Price and hour percentages count options with known prices or hours.
  • Monday-through-Friday provider counts include explicit usual weekday schedules and recognized holiday-shortened weeks, but exclude unknown schedules and ordinary four-day programs.
  • Pickup figures count options ending at 5 p.m. or later, including extended care.
  • The last week of August means the final complete Monday-through-Friday week within August (August 24-28 in 2026). Camps starting earlier count if they run during that week.
  • Aid, refund and nonprofit percentages count each day or sleepaway camp provider once across both areas, using October 2026 provider records.
  • Policy percentages use all those providers as the denominator, count only explicit positive records, and are rounded to the nearest whole percent.
  • Prices and hour percentages need at least 20 usable options from five providers. Sparse figures are omitted rather than filled in from a larger area.

Check with each camp for current prices, care packages and refund terms.