VacationSelector

Bucharest or Kyoto?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bucharest
55
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BucharestKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
BucharestKyoto
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance198 km47 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
BucharestKyoto
Score6784
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6675,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4122
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 23 points.23
BucharestKyoto
Score4972
Museums within 10 km73132
Museums within 2 km of centre4051
Share of museums within 2 km %5539
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 18 points.18
BucharestKyoto
Score6280
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0173,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5412,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5373
Nightclubs within 4 km8026
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 14 points.14
BucharestKyoto
Score3622
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 2 points.2
BucharestKyoto
Score6866
Tourist attractions within 2 km4562
Park area within 2 km133 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 9 points.9
BucharestKyoto
Score6152
Notable places within 2 km13079
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 15 points.15
BucharestKyoto
Score8570
Price level global40.962.4
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 1 points.1
BucharestKyoto
Score6362
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm40 mm to 232 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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestKyoto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
MunichMUC
2 h 5 m
€181-218
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
DohaDOH
4 h 20 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 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

MeasureBucharestKyoto
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 m51 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestKyoto
City population1,716,9611,463,723
People per km²7,5971,768
Museums within 10 km4176
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre6889
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.