VacationSelector

Bucharest or Salzburg?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

BucharestSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Salzburg are level on 0.
BucharestSalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km39
Coast distance198 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 18 points.18
BucharestSalzburg
Score6749
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4123
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 11 points.11
BucharestSalzburg
Score4960
Museums within 10 km7342
Museums within 2 km of centre4027
Share of museums within 2 km %5564
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 26 points.26
BucharestSalzburg
Score6236
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5382
Nightclubs within 4 km8016
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 9 points.9
BucharestSalzburg
Score3627
Protected land share 50 km %46
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 20 points.20
BucharestSalzburg
Score6848
Tourist attractions within 2 km4517
Park area within 2 km133 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 15 points.15
BucharestSalzburg
Score6146
Notable places within 2 km13054
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 26 points.26
BucharestSalzburg
Score8559
Price level global40.976.9
Daily budget€99€160
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 9 points.9
BucharestSalzburg
Score6354
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestSalzburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
1 h 35 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€183-262
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureBucharestSalzburg
Official languageRomanianGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m424 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestSalzburg
City population1,716,961155,021
People per km²7,5972,360
Museums within 10 km4138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6850

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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.