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Bucharest or Florence?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Bucharest
55
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Florence
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

BucharestFlorence
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Florence are level on 0.
BucharestFlorence
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance198 km78 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 8 points.8
BucharestFlorence
Score6759
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6671,299
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4115
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 33 points.33
BucharestFlorence
Score4982
Museums within 10 km73132
Museums within 2 km of centre4093
Share of museums within 2 km %5570
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 6 points.6
BucharestFlorence
Score6256
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541599
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5373
Nightclubs within 4 km8034
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 2 points.2
BucharestFlorence
Score3638
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares86 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 16 points.16
BucharestFlorence
Score6852
Tourist attractions within 2 km4530
Park area within 2 km133 hectares86 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 14 points.14
BucharestFlorence
Score6175
Notable places within 2 km130292
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestFlorence
Score8568
Price level global40.964.9
Daily budget€99€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 5 points.5
BucharestFlorence
Score6368
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C10.8 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months12
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestFlorence
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
MunichMUC
2 h 5 m
€181-218
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 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

MeasureBucharestFlorence
Official languageRomanianItalian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m50 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestFlorence
City population1,716,961360,930
People per km²7,5973,528
Museums within 10 km41140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre6862

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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. 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.