VacationSelector

Bucharest or Montreal?

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 value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

BucharestMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Montreal are level on 0.
BucharestMontreal
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km37
Coast distance198 km276 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 7 points.7
BucharestMontreal
Score6774
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6671,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4149
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 12 points.12
BucharestMontreal
Score4937
Museums within 10 km7339
Museums within 2 km of centre4019
Share of museums within 2 km %5549
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bucharest and Montreal are level on 62.
BucharestMontreal
Score6262
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0171,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5349
Nightclubs within 4 km8074
Nature & day trips. Bucharest and Montreal are level on 36.
BucharestMontreal
Score3636
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 18 points.18
BucharestMontreal
Score6850
Tourist attractions within 2 km4511
Park area within 2 km133 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 5 points.5
BucharestMontreal
Score6156
Notable places within 2 km13098
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 31 points.31
BucharestMontreal
Score8554
Price level global40.984
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 13 points.13
BucharestMontreal
Score6350
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm69 mm to 121 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
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Montreal
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
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3

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

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestMontreal
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 18 km
7 h 10 m
€506-644
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
YUL · 16 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

MeasureBucharestMontreal
Official languageRomanianFrench, English
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation70 m31 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestMontreal
City population1,716,9611,895,211
People per km²7,5973,806
Museums within 10 km4137
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6897

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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.