VacationSelector

Bucharest or West Palm Beach?

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

Your match

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BucharestWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
BucharestWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km310
Coast distance198 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 30 points.30
BucharestWest Palm Beach
Score6737
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4114
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 32 points.32
BucharestWest Palm Beach
Score4917
Museums within 10 km735
Museums within 2 km of centre403
Share of museums within 2 km %5560
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 42 points.42
BucharestWest Palm Beach
Score6220
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre54190
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5368
Nightclubs within 4 km8010
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 33 points.33
BucharestWest Palm Beach
Score3669
Protected land share 50 km %415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km133 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 47 points.47
BucharestWest Palm Beach
Score6821
Tourist attractions within 2 km453
Park area within 2 km133 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 49 points.49
BucharestWest Palm Beach
Score6112
Notable places within 2 km1308
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 42 points.42
BucharestWest Palm Beach
Score8543
Price level global40.9100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 12 points.12
BucharestWest Palm Beach
Score6375
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
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
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureBucharestWest Palm Beach
Official languageRomanian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation70 m6 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestWest Palm Beach
City population1,716,961117,415
People per km²7,597786
Museums within 10 km414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6818
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.