VacationSelector

Bangkok or Bucharest?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Bucharest
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

BangkokBucharest
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokBucharest
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km03
Coast distance23 km198 km
Water distance23 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 16 points.16
BangkokBucharest
Score8367
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957667
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2641
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 3 points.3
BangkokBucharest
Score4649
Museums within 10 km10373
Museums within 2 km of centre3040
Share of museums within 2 km %2955
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 21 points.21
BangkokBucharest
Score8362
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3831,017
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396541
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4153
Nightclubs within 4 km7280
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 15 points.15
BangkokBucharest
Score5136
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km42 hectares133 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 11 points.11
BangkokBucharest
Score5768
Tourist attractions within 2 km3145
Park area within 2 km42 hectares133 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 13 points.13
BangkokBucharest
Score4861
Notable places within 2 km62130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 8 points.8
BangkokBucharest
Score9385
Price level global29.740.9
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 7 points.7
BangkokBucharest
Score5663
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C2.8 °C to 30.5 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm33 mm to 82 mm
Dry months31
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokBucharest
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
8 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBangkokBucharest
Official languageThaiRomanian
CurrencyBaht (THB)Romanian Leu (RON)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m70 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokBucharest
City population5,676,6481,716,961
People per km²3,6197,597
Museums within 10 km5941
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9168
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.