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Bucharest or Hamburg?

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, 2 points apart

Bucharest
55
match

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

Hamburg
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat 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.

BucharestHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Hamburg are level on 0.
BucharestHamburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km316
Coast distance198 km22 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 6 points.6
BucharestHamburg
Score6773
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6671,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4138
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 11 points.11
BucharestHamburg
Score4960
Museums within 10 km7394
Museums within 2 km of centre4050
Share of museums within 2 km %5553
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 6 points.6
BucharestHamburg
Score6268
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0171,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5362
Nightclubs within 4 km80119
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 4 points.4
BucharestHamburg
Score3640
Protected land share 50 km %414
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km133 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 8 points.8
BucharestHamburg
Score6860
Tourist attractions within 2 km4540
Park area within 2 km133 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 2 points.2
BucharestHamburg
Score6159
Notable places within 2 km130118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 25 points.25
BucharestHamburg
Score8560
Price level global40.975.9
Daily budget€99€163
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 8 points.8
BucharestHamburg
Score6355
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm39 mm to 82 mm
Dry months11
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
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). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBucharestHamburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
MunichMUC
2 h 5 m
€181-218
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 0 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 45 m
€140-237
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
3 h 35 m
€162-200
HAM · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€96-167
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 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

MeasureBucharestHamburg
Official languageRomanianGerman
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m6 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestHamburg
City population1,716,9611,910,160
People per km²7,5972,530
Museums within 10 km4177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6883

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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.