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The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
BucharestThe CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Bucharest by Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bucharest or San Miguel de Allende?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bucharest for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Bucharest’s own page.

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bucharest 8, San Miguel de Allende 4: Bucharest leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Bucharest 55, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Bucharest 58, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Bucharest 70, San Miguel de Allende 38: Bucharest leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bucharest 45, San Miguel de Allende 40: Bucharest leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Bucharest 52, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Bucharest 52, San Miguel de Allende 32: Bucharest leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Bucharest 52, San Miguel de Allende 48: Bucharest leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Bucharest 45, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Bucharest 70, San Miguel de Allende 50: Bucharest leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bucharest 60, San Miguel de Allende 40: Bucharest leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bucharest 47, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bucharest and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bucharest
Best match
51match

Wins on nightlife and families with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bucharest in July

30 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
68 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBucharestSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageRomanianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation70 m1,900 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestSan Miguel de Allende
City population1,716,96169,811
People per km²7,597-
Museums within 10 km412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.