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The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
BucharestThe CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei
The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji

Photos: Bucharest by Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bucharest or Fukuoka?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bucharest for

  • live music and the arts
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Bucharest’s own page.

Choose Fukuoka for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Fukuoka’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bucharest 8, Fukuoka 50: Fukuoka leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Bucharest 55, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Bucharest 58, Fukuoka 50: Bucharest leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Bucharest 70, Fukuoka 60: Bucharest leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bucharest 45, Fukuoka 62: Fukuoka leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Bucharest 52, Fukuoka 84: Fukuoka leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Bucharest 52, Fukuoka 78: Fukuoka leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Bucharest 52, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Bucharest 45, Fukuoka 65: Fukuoka leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Bucharest 70, Fukuoka 58: Bucharest leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bucharest 60, Fukuoka 45: Bucharest leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bucharest 47, Fukuoka 60: Fukuoka leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bucharest and Fukuoka.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bucharest
51match

Wins on live music and the arts and prices with your weighting.

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bucharest in July

30 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
68 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBucharestFukuoka
Official languageRomanianJapanese
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation70 m8 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestFukuoka
City population1,716,9611,603,043
People per km²7,5974,715
Museums within 10 km4123
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.