VacationSelector

Bucharest or Ljubljana?

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 good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

BucharestLjubljana
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Ljubljana are level on 0.
BucharestLjubljana
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km310
Coast distance198 km72 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 12 points.12
BucharestLjubljana
Score6755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667292
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4140
Museums & heritage. Ljubljana leads by 6 points.6
BucharestLjubljana
Score4955
Museums within 10 km7326
Museums within 2 km of centre4023
Share of museums within 2 km %5588
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestLjubljana
Score6245
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017458
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541284
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5362
Nightclubs within 4 km8024
Nature & day trips. Ljubljana leads by 4 points.4
BucharestLjubljana
Score3640
Protected land share 50 km %413
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 30 points.30
BucharestLjubljana
Score6838
Tourist attractions within 2 km4512
Park area within 2 km133 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 3 points.3
BucharestLjubljana
Score6158
Notable places within 2 km130109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 13 points.13
BucharestLjubljana
Score8572
Price level global40.959.6
Daily budget€99€131
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 7 points.7
BucharestLjubljana
Score6356
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C4.1 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm67 mm to 159 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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestLjubljana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
DubrovnikDBV
1 h 25 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€184-197
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 20 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

MeasureBucharestLjubljana
Official languageRomanianSlovene
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 m309 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestLjubljana
City population1,716,961284,293
People per km²7,5971,736
Museums within 10 km4114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6863

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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.