VacationSelector

Bucharest or Mostar?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Mostar
32
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BucharestMostar
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Mostar are level on 0.
BucharestMostar
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km37
Coast distance198 km44 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 48 points.48
BucharestMostar
Score6719
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km419
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 13 points.13
BucharestMostar
Score4936
Museums within 10 km7313
Museums within 2 km of centre4012
Share of museums within 2 km %5592
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 40 points.40
BucharestMostar
Score6222
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017154
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541147
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5395
Nightclubs within 4 km808
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 27 points.27
BucharestMostar
Score369
Protected land share 50 km %46
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km133 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 53 points.53
BucharestMostar
Score6815
Tourist attractions within 2 km4510
Park area within 2 km133 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 25 points.25
BucharestMostar
Score6136
Notable places within 2 km13031
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 3 points.3
BucharestMostar
Score8588
Price level global40.937.4
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 2 points.2
BucharestMostar
Score6361
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C9.3 °C to 33.4 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm54 mm to 198 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
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Mostar
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestMostar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 68 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 68 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 68 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 18 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 30 m
€118-143
OTP · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 95 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

MeasureBucharestMostar
Official languageRomanianCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m60 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestMostar
City population1,716,961105,448
People per km²7,59790
Museums within 10 km413
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6818

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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.