VacationSelector

Bucharest or Milan?

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 with your weighting.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BucharestMilan
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Milan are level on 0.
BucharestMilan
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km34
Coast distance198 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Milan leads by 3 points.3
BucharestMilan
Score6770
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6671,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4120
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 25 points.25
BucharestMilan
Score4974
Museums within 10 km7387
Museums within 2 km of centre4055
Share of museums within 2 km %5563
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Milan leads by 13 points.13
BucharestMilan
Score6275
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0172,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5343
Nightclubs within 4 km8070
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 29 points.29
BucharestMilan
Score3665
Protected land share 50 km %430
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 9 points.9
BucharestMilan
Score6877
Tourist attractions within 2 km4576
Park area within 2 km133 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 13 points.13
BucharestMilan
Score6174
Notable places within 2 km130266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestMilan
Score8568
Price level global40.964.9
Daily budget€99€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 1 points.1
BucharestMilan
Score6364
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Milan
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
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
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). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestMilan
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 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

MeasureBucharestMilan
Official languageRomanianItalian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m138 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestMilan
City population1,716,9611,354,196
People per km²7,5977,453
Museums within 10 km4187
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre6879

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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.