VacationSelector

Bucharest or Toronto?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bucharest
55
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BucharestToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
BucharestToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km358
Coast distance198 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
BucharestToronto
Score6782
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6672,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4139
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 6 points.6
BucharestToronto
Score4943
Museums within 10 km7335
Museums within 2 km of centre4025
Share of museums within 2 km %5571
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
BucharestToronto
Score6269
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0171,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5364
Nightclubs within 4 km80103
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 10 points.10
BucharestToronto
Score3626
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 11 points.11
BucharestToronto
Score6857
Tourist attractions within 2 km4523
Park area within 2 km133 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Bucharest and Toronto are level on 61.
BucharestToronto
Score6161
Notable places within 2 km130128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 31 points.31
BucharestToronto
Score8554
Price level global40.984
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 8 points.8
BucharestToronto
Score6355
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm51 mm to 85 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
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
Toronto
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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 18 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureBucharestToronto
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 m76 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestToronto
City population1,716,9612,794,356
People per km²7,5974,434
Museums within 10 km4132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre68102
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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.