VacationSelector

Bucharest or Los Angeles?

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.

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

BucharestLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
BucharestLos Angeles
Score029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance198 km
Water distance
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 1 points.1
BucharestLos Angeles
Score6766
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6671,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4122
Museums & heritage. Bucharest and Los Angeles are level on 49.
BucharestLos Angeles
Score4949
Museums within 10 km7369
Museums within 2 km of centre4023
Share of museums within 2 km %5533
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 8 points.8
BucharestLos Angeles
Score6254
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5365
Nightclubs within 4 km8064
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 26 points.26
BucharestLos Angeles
Score3662
Protected land share 50 km %426
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km133 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 35 points.35
BucharestLos Angeles
Score6833
Tourist attractions within 2 km4511
Park area within 2 km133 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 7 points.7
BucharestLos Angeles
Score6154
Notable places within 2 km13088
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 42 points.42
BucharestLos Angeles
Score8543
Price level global40.9100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 24 points.24
BucharestLos Angeles
Score6387
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months18
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestLos Angeles
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 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

MeasureBucharestLos Angeles
Official languageRomanian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation70 m106 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestLos Angeles
City population1,716,9613,898,747
People per km²7,5972,994
Museums within 10 km4138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6846
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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.