VacationSelector

Bucharest or Glasgow?

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 value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Glasgow
48
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.

BucharestGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
BucharestGlasgow
Score036
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km33
Coast distance198 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 4 points.4
BucharestGlasgow
Score6763
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4129
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 4 points.4
BucharestGlasgow
Score4945
Museums within 10 km7332
Museums within 2 km of centre4013
Share of museums within 2 km %5541
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 1 points.1
BucharestGlasgow
Score6263
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0171,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5361
Nightclubs within 4 km8073
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 2 points.2
BucharestGlasgow
Score3638
Protected land share 50 km %416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %012
Land share of disc %10091
Park area within 2 km133 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 27 points.27
BucharestGlasgow
Score6841
Tourist attractions within 2 km4513
Park area within 2 km133 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 8 points.8
BucharestGlasgow
Score6153
Notable places within 2 km13080
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 31 points.31
BucharestGlasgow
Score8554
Price level global40.984.9
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 20 points.20
BucharestGlasgow
Score6343
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBucharestGlasgow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 45 m
€140-237
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
4 h 40 m
€171-239
1 stop
GLA · 11 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 50 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 56 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 56 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 30 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 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

MeasureBucharestGlasgow
Official languageRomanianEnglish
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation70 m21 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestGlasgow
City population1,716,961626,410
People per km²7,597190
Museums within 10 km4129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6854
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.