VacationSelector

Bucharest or Cork?

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

Your match

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Cork
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BucharestCork
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
BucharestCork
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km31
Coast distance198 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestCork
Score6750
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667224
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4135
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 26 points.26
BucharestCork
Score4923
Museums within 10 km7310
Museums within 2 km of centre408
Share of museums within 2 km %5580
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 24 points.24
BucharestCork
Score6238
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017361
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5381
Nightclubs within 4 km809
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 16 points.16
BucharestCork
Score3652
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10074
Park area within 2 km133 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 41 points.41
BucharestCork
Score6827
Tourist attractions within 2 km457
Park area within 2 km133 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 39 points.39
BucharestCork
Score6122
Notable places within 2 km13014
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 28 points.28
BucharestCork
Score8557
Price level global40.980.2
Daily budget€99€187
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 14 points.14
BucharestCork
Score6349
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C8.3 °C to 18.6 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm78 mm to 140 mm
Dry months10
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
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestCork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 50 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 20 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
FaroFAO
4 h 10 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 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

MeasureBucharestCork
Official languageRomanianEnglish, Irish
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m0 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestCork
City population1,716,961222,333
People per km²7,5975,961
Museums within 10 km415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6849
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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.