VacationSelector

Bucharest or Seattle?

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.

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BucharestSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
BucharestSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3100
Coast distance198 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 8 points.8
BucharestSeattle
Score6775
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6671,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4135
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 13 points.13
BucharestSeattle
Score4936
Museums within 10 km7328
Museums within 2 km of centre4017
Share of museums within 2 km %5561
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 5 points.5
BucharestSeattle
Score6257
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5380
Nightclubs within 4 km8034
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 4 points.4
BucharestSeattle
Score3640
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km133 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 22 points.22
BucharestSeattle
Score6846
Tourist attractions within 2 km4517
Park area within 2 km133 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 9 points.9
BucharestSeattle
Score6152
Notable places within 2 km13076
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 42 points.42
BucharestSeattle
Score8543
Price level global40.9100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 2 points.2
BucharestSeattle
Score6361
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months13
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seattle
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
Seattle
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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestSeattle
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 5 m
€181-218
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 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

MeasureBucharestSeattle
Official languageRomanian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation70 m40 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestSeattle
City population1,716,961737,015
People per km²7,5971,996
Museums within 10 km4127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6878
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.