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Bucharest or Ottawa?

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.

Ottawa
43
match

Wins on 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.

BucharestOttawa
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Ottawa are level on 0.
BucharestOttawa
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km39
Coast distance198 km423 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 3 points.3
BucharestOttawa
Score6764
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667684
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4134
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestOttawa
Score4932
Museums within 10 km7315
Museums within 2 km of centre408
Share of museums within 2 km %5553
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 18 points.18
BucharestOttawa
Score6244
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017432
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541303
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5370
Nightclubs within 4 km8035
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 5 points.5
BucharestOttawa
Score3641
Protected land share 50 km %48
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares122 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 22 points.22
BucharestOttawa
Score6846
Tourist attractions within 2 km4511
Park area within 2 km133 hectares122 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 11 points.11
BucharestOttawa
Score6150
Notable places within 2 km13071
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 31 points.31
BucharestOttawa
Score8554
Price level global40.984
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 10 points.10
BucharestOttawa
Score6353
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C-4.9 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ottawa
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
Ottawa
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). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestOttawa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 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

MeasureBucharestOttawa
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 m70 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestOttawa
City population1,716,9611,017,449
People per km²7,597366
Museums within 10 km4120
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6862

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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.