VacationSelector

Bucharest or Miami?

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, 1 point apart

Bucharest
55
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BucharestMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
BucharestMiami
Score095
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km320
Coast distance198 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 2 points.2
BucharestMiami
Score6765
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4129
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 26 points.26
BucharestMiami
Score4923
Museums within 10 km7328
Museums within 2 km of centre406
Share of museums within 2 km %5521
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 12 points.12
BucharestMiami
Score6250
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5353
Nightclubs within 4 km8063
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 36 points.36
BucharestMiami
Score3672
Protected land share 50 km %416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10048
Park area within 2 km133 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 24 points.24
BucharestMiami
Score6844
Tourist attractions within 2 km4514
Park area within 2 km133 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 19 points.19
BucharestMiami
Score6142
Notable places within 2 km13045
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 42 points.42
BucharestMiami
Score8543
Price level global40.9100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 11 points.11
BucharestMiami
Score6374
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Miami
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). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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

MeasureBucharestMiami
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 m2 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestMiami
City population1,716,961442,241
People per km²7,5973,046
Museums within 10 km4117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6839
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.