VacationSelector

Bruges or Bucharest?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money 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.

BrugesBucharest
Beaches & swimming. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesBucharest
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km13
Coast distance14 km198 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 10 points.10
BrugesBucharest
Score5767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443667
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3241
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesBucharest
Score5749
Museums within 10 km3073
Museums within 2 km of centre2440
Share of museums within 2 km %8055
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 28 points.28
BrugesBucharest
Score3462
Drinking venues within 4 km2921,017
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233541
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8053
Nightclubs within 4 km880
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 10 points.10
BrugesBucharest
Score2636
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km59 hectares133 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 8 points.8
BrugesBucharest
Score6068
Tourist attractions within 2 km5245
Park area within 2 km59 hectares133 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 21 points.21
BrugesBucharest
Score4061
Notable places within 2 km40130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 25 points.25
BrugesBucharest
Score6085
Price level global76.240.9
Daily budget€180€99
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 7 points.7
BrugesBucharest
Score5663
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C2.8 °C to 30.5 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm33 mm to 82 mm
Dry months11
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
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
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
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. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesBucharest
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 94 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

MeasureBrugesBucharest
Official languageFrench, German, DutchRomanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Romanian Leu (RON)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m70 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesBucharest
City population118,5091,716,961
People per km²8407,597
Museums within 10 km3841
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre5168
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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.