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Bucharest or Oslo?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Oslo
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.

BucharestOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
BucharestOslo
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3163
Coast distance198 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bucharest and Oslo are level on 67.
BucharestOslo
Score6767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4134
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 1 points.1
BucharestOslo
Score4948
Museums within 10 km7370
Museums within 2 km of centre4037
Share of museums within 2 km %5553
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 9 points.9
BucharestOslo
Score6253
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5381
Nightclubs within 4 km8041
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 25 points.25
BucharestOslo
Score3661
Protected land share 50 km %422
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km133 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 20 points.20
BucharestOslo
Score6848
Tourist attractions within 2 km4513
Park area within 2 km133 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 8 points.8
BucharestOslo
Score6169
Notable places within 2 km130207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 31 points.31
BucharestOslo
Score8554
Price level global40.985.1
Daily budget€99€203
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 15 points.15
BucharestOslo
Score6348
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 30 m
€118-143
OTP · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
2 h 35 m
€78-91
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
4 h 20 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 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

MeasureBucharestOslo
Official languageRomanianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation70 m23 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestOslo
City population1,716,961717,710
People per km²7,597
Museums within 10 km4160
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6875
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.