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The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
BucharestThe CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei
A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio

Photos: Bucharest by Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Bucharest or Havana?

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

  • wellness
  • families
  • food and drink

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

Choose Havana for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Havana’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, Havana 64: Havana leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Bucharest 55, Havana 40: Bucharest leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Bucharest 58, Havana 77: Havana leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Bucharest 70, Havana 60: Bucharest leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bucharest 45, Havana 34: Bucharest leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Bucharest 52, Havana 38: Bucharest leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Bucharest 52, Havana 34: Bucharest leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Bucharest 52, Havana 38: Bucharest leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bucharest 45, Havana 30: Bucharest leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Bucharest 70, Havana 58: Bucharest leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bucharest 60, Havana 74: Havana leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bucharest 47, Havana 22: Bucharest leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bucharest and Havana.

Your match

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

Bucharest
Best match
51match

Wins on wellness and families with your weighting.

Havana
47match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights 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

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Havana has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBucharestHavana
Official languageRomanianSpanish
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Cuban Peso (CUP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112Police 106, ambulance 104, fire 105
Elevation70 m59 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestHavana
City population1,716,9612,492,618
People per km²7,5973,423
Museums within 10 km4112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.