VacationSelector

Bucharest or Vienna?

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

Your match

Bucharest
55
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

BucharestVienna
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Vienna are level on 0.
BucharestVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km322
Coast distance198 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 10 points.10
BucharestVienna
Score6777
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6671,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4137
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 32 points.32
BucharestVienna
Score4981
Museums within 10 km73192
Museums within 2 km of centre40110
Share of museums within 2 km %5557
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 12 points.12
BucharestVienna
Score6274
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0171,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5411,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5356
Nightclubs within 4 km80108
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 4 points.4
BucharestVienna
Score3632
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 1 points.1
BucharestVienna
Score6869
Tourist attractions within 2 km4546
Park area within 2 km133 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 14 points.14
BucharestVienna
Score6175
Notable places within 2 km130287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 26 points.26
BucharestVienna
Score8559
Price level global40.976.9
Daily budget€99€160
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 2 points.2
BucharestVienna
Score6361
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months11
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€49-71
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€84-160
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€63-153
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 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

MeasureBucharestVienna
Official languageRomanianGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m151 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestVienna
City population1,716,9612,028,289
People per km²7,5974,890
Museums within 10 km41152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre68113

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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. 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.