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Bucharest or Fort Lauderdale?

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 sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
45
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.

BucharestFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
BucharestFort Lauderdale
Score084
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km37
Coast distance198 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 22 points.22
BucharestFort Lauderdale
Score6745
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4118
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 29 points.29
BucharestFort Lauderdale
Score4920
Museums within 10 km7314
Museums within 2 km of centre406
Share of museums within 2 km %5543
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 28 points.28
BucharestFort Lauderdale
Score6234
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5356
Nightclubs within 4 km8018
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 45 points.45
BucharestFort Lauderdale
Score3681
Protected land share 50 km %420
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km133 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 49 points.49
BucharestFort Lauderdale
Score6819
Tourist attractions within 2 km452
Park area within 2 km133 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 61 points.61
BucharestFort Lauderdale
Score610
Notable places within 2 km1302
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 42 points.42
BucharestFort Lauderdale
Score8543
Price level global40.9100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 13 points.13
BucharestFort Lauderdale
Score6376
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestFort Lauderdale
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 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

MeasureBucharestFort Lauderdale
Official languageRomanian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation70 m11 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestFort Lauderdale
City population1,716,961182,760
People per km²7,5971,829
Museums within 10 km416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6825
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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.