VacationSelector

Bucharest or Venice?

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, 2 points apart

Bucharest
55
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and 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.

BucharestVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
BucharestVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km320
Coast distance198 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 22 points.22
BucharestVenice
Score6745
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4110
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 23 points.23
BucharestVenice
Score4972
Museums within 10 km7357
Museums within 2 km of centre4045
Share of museums within 2 km %5579
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 27 points.27
BucharestVenice
Score6235
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5389
Nightclubs within 4 km803
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 19 points.19
BucharestVenice
Score3617
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km133 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 11 points.11
BucharestVenice
Score6857
Tourist attractions within 2 km4572
Park area within 2 km133 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 22 points.22
BucharestVenice
Score6183
Notable places within 2 km130464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestVenice
Score8568
Price level global40.964.9
Daily budget€99€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 3 points.3
BucharestVenice
Score6366
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months12
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 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

MeasureBucharestVenice
Official languageRomanianItalian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m2 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestVenice
City population1,716,961250,369
People per km²7,597602
Museums within 10 km4152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre6846
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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.