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Bucharest or Varanasi?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
Bucharest

Photo: Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0, cropped

Rowing boats below the ghats in the morning light, Varanasi
Varanasi

Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Bucharest
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nightlife and families with your weighting.

Varanasi
40
match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

BucharestVaranasi
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest leads by 4 points.4
Food & drink. Bucharest and Varanasi are level on 55.
Culture & sights. Varanasi leads by 22 points.22
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 60 points.60
Nature & outdoors. Bucharest leads by 27 points.27
Day trips. Bucharest leads by 10 points.10
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 47 points.47
Getting around. Bucharest leads by 24 points.24
Shopping & style. Varanasi leads by 10 points.10
Affordability. Varanasi leads by 22 points.22
Live music & performing arts. Bucharest leads by 2 points.2
Wellness & relaxation. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bucharest and Varanasi.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBucharestVaranasi
Daytime high30 °C35 °C
Night-time low16 °C27 °C
Rainfall in the month68 mm249 mm
Sunshine10 hours a dayNo figure
Daylight15 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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M
A
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N
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Daytime high, °C
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Varanasi
24
29
35
41
43
41
35
33
32
32
28
24
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Varanasi
12
14
10
11
23
110
249
200
146
34
2
5
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Varanasi
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Varanasi
No sunshine record

Where the figures come from

Varanasi has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Varanasi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Before you go

MeasureBucharestVaranasi
Official languageRomanianHindi, English
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number112108 or 112
Elevation70 m76 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsLal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (VNS)21 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestVaranasi
City population1,716,9611,198,491
People per km²7,59714,598
Museums within 10 km412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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Sources

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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.