VacationSelector

Berlin or Bucharest?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Bucharest
55
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

BerlinBucharest
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Bucharest are level on 0.
BerlinBucharest
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km173
Coast distance142 km198 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 3 points.3
BerlinBucharest
Score7067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117667
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3341
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 30 points.30
BerlinBucharest
Score7949
Museums within 10 km20073
Museums within 2 km of centre8140
Share of museums within 2 km %4155
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 14 points.14
BerlinBucharest
Score7662
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1141,017
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719541
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3453
Nightclubs within 4 km13580
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 13 points.13
BerlinBucharest
Score4936
Protected land share 50 km %204
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares133 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 8 points.8
BerlinBucharest
Score7668
Tourist attractions within 2 km5445
Park area within 2 km141 hectares133 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 23 points.23
BerlinBucharest
Score8461
Notable places within 2 km486130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 25 points.25
BerlinBucharest
Score6085
Price level global75.940.9
Daily budget€163€99
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 3 points.3
BerlinBucharest
Score6063
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C2.8 °C to 30.5 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinBucharest
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€86-132
BER · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€187-215
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€126-154
1 stop
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 0 m
€208-225
1 stop
BER · 19 km
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
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

MeasureBerlinBucharest
Official languageGermanRomanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Romanian Leu (RON)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m70 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinBucharest
City population3,782,2021,716,961
People per km²4,2447,597
Museums within 10 km15841
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8668

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.