VacationSelector

Bucharest or Warsaw?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BucharestWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Warsaw are level on 0.
BucharestWarsaw
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km326
Coast distance198 km238 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 5 points.5
BucharestWarsaw
Score6772
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6671,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4134
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 14 points.14
BucharestWarsaw
Score4963
Museums within 10 km73107
Museums within 2 km of centre4060
Share of museums within 2 km %5556
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bucharest and Warsaw are level on 62.
BucharestWarsaw
Score6262
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0171,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5364
Nightclubs within 4 km80104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 19 points.19
BucharestWarsaw
Score3655
Protected land share 50 km %427
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 2 points.2
BucharestWarsaw
Score6870
Tourist attractions within 2 km4542
Park area within 2 km133 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 15 points.15
BucharestWarsaw
Score6176
Notable places within 2 km130299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 6 points.6
BucharestWarsaw
Score8579
Price level global40.949
Daily budget€99€133
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 4 points.4
BucharestWarsaw
Score6359
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months16
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 45 m
€140-237
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureBucharestWarsaw
Official languageRomanianPolish
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m118 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestWarsaw
City population1,716,9611,862,402
People per km²7,5973,601
Museums within 10 km41117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6876

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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.