VacationSelector

Bologna or Budapest?

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.

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

BolognaBudapest
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Budapest are level on 0.
BolognaBudapest
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km26
Coast distance74 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 19 points.19
BolognaBudapest
Score5877
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8221,699
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2035
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 3 points.3
BolognaBudapest
Score6764
Museums within 10 km58144
Museums within 2 km of centre4364
Share of museums within 2 km %7444
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 19 points.19
BolognaBudapest
Score5372
Drinking venues within 4 km7201,765
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5311,168
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7466
Nightclubs within 4 km3097
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 1 points.1
BolognaBudapest
Score3940
Protected land share 50 km %78
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares111 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 16 points.16
BolognaBudapest
Score5571
Tourist attractions within 2 km3275
Park area within 2 km119 hectares111 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 9 points.9
BolognaBudapest
Score6069
Notable places within 2 km120206
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 12 points.12
BolognaBudapest
Score6880
Price level global64.948
Daily budget€155€104
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 3 points.3
BolognaBudapest
Score6764
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C3.6 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm27 mm to 75 mm
Dry months55
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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
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). Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaBudapest
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€70-86
BUD · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 40 m
€289-462
1 stop
VRN · 106 km
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 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

MeasureBolognaBudapest
Official languageItalianHungarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Forint (HUF)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m117 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaBudapest
City population387,9711,685,209
People per km²2,7543,209
Museums within 10 km6681
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6286

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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.