Cities similar to Bucharest

Ranked by how close each city sits to Bucharest across ten measured metrics: sex ratio, cost, rent, salary, safety, air, green space, places to eat and universities. Closer is more alike, not better.

Cluj-Napoca is the closest match, 10.9 percentile points from Bucharest across 10 shared metrics. The two sit within eight percentile points of each other on city-centre rent, local salary and cost of living. The band widens slowly from there: the last city listed sits 14.8 away, so these 10 are a cluster rather than a ranking with a clear winner. 1 of the 10 is also in Romania; the other 9 are abroad. Distance says how alike two cities measure, never which one is better to live in: a city can be close to Bucharest because both score badly on the same things.

921 cities ranked by male-to-female ratio, 848 of them measured below national level, 104 country deep-dives.

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Cluj-NapocaRomania10.910city-centre rent, local salary, cost of living
PoznańPoland10.910women aged 20–39, safety, salary against local costs
ZagrebCroatia11.310clean air, salary against local costs, universities
Saint PetersburgRussia11.410cost of living, green space, women aged 20–39
KobeJapan12.310city-centre rent, clean air, places to eat
Taipei CityTaiwan13.210universities, clean air, city-centre rent
OsakaJapan13.310city-centre rent, clean air, universities
WrocławPoland13.710women aged 20–39, universities, salary against local costs
GdańskPoland14.410women aged 20–39, salary against local costs, safety
BangkokThailand14.810city-centre rent, universities, green space

Distance is the root-mean-square gap in percentile points across the metrics both cities carry, so 0 would be an exact match and 100 the opposite end of every scale. A pair scored on fewer than 8 shared metrics is not listed.

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