VacationSelector

Bucharest or Pisa?

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 nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BucharestPisa
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
BucharestPisa
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km31
Coast distance198 km10 km
Water distance10 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 33 points.33
BucharestPisa
Score6734
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km419
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 6 points.6
BucharestPisa
Score4955
Museums within 10 km7327
Museums within 2 km of centre4022
Share of museums within 2 km %5581
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 34 points.34
BucharestPisa
Score6228
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5388
Nightclubs within 4 km803
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 3 points.3
BucharestPisa
Score3639
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km133 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 21 points.21
BucharestPisa
Score6847
Tourist attractions within 2 km4520
Park area within 2 km133 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 14 points.14
BucharestPisa
Score6147
Notable places within 2 km13058
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestPisa
Score8568
Price level global40.964.9
Daily budget€99€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 7 points.7
BucharestPisa
Score6370
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months12
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Pisa
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
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 5 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 10 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 115 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 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

MeasureBucharestPisa
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 m4 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestPisa
City population1,716,96188,737
People per km²7,597479
Museums within 10 km4127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6829
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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.