VacationSelector

Bologna or Bucharest?

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

Your match

Bologna
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BolognaBucharest
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Bucharest are level on 0.
BolognaBucharest
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km23
Coast distance74 km198 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 9 points.9
BolognaBucharest
Score5867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822667
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2041
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 18 points.18
BolognaBucharest
Score6749
Museums within 10 km5873
Museums within 2 km of centre4340
Share of museums within 2 km %7455
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 9 points.9
BolognaBucharest
Score5362
Drinking venues within 4 km7201,017
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531541
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7453
Nightclubs within 4 km3080
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 3 points.3
BolognaBucharest
Score3936
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares133 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 13 points.13
BolognaBucharest
Score5568
Tourist attractions within 2 km3245
Park area within 2 km119 hectares133 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 1 points.1
BolognaBucharest
Score6061
Notable places within 2 km120130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BolognaBucharest
Score6885
Price level global64.940.9
Daily budget€155€99
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 4 points.4
BolognaBucharest
Score6763
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C2.8 °C to 30.5 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm33 mm to 82 mm
Dry months51
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaBucharest
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 20 m
€85-160
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 40 m
€289-462
1 stop
VRN · 106 km
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaBucharest
Official languageItalianRomanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Romanian Leu (RON)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m70 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaBucharest
City population387,9711,716,961
People per km²2,7547,597
Museums within 10 km6641
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre6268

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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.