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The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
BucharestThe CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei
Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West

Photos: Bucharest by Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License.

Bucharest or Key West?

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

  • prices
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Key West for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Key West’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, Key West 60: Key West leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Bucharest 55, Key West 45: Bucharest leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Bucharest 58, Key West 40: Bucharest leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Bucharest 70, Key West 62: Bucharest leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bucharest 45, Key West 62: Key West leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Bucharest 52, Key West 28: Bucharest leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Bucharest 52, Key West 40: Bucharest leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bucharest 52, Key West 62: Key West leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Bucharest 45, Key West 30: Bucharest leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Bucharest 70, Key West 15: Bucharest leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bucharest 60, Key West 38: Bucharest leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bucharest 47, Key West 40: Bucharest leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bucharest and Key West.

Your match

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

Bucharest
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Key West
44match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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). Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBucharestKey West
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 m4 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestKey West
City population1,716,96126,444
People per km²7,5971,407
Museums within 10 km417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.