Climate
Bucharest logs 60 hot days a year to Ploieşti's 41 — Ploieşti wins by 19. Bucharest also leads on frost days by 11.
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Air Quality
Bucharest averages 16.0 µg/m³ (sensitive-groups) PM2.5 annually versus Ploieşti's 16.3 µg/m³ (sensitive-groups) — Bucharest breathes ~2% cleaner air (0.3 µg/m³ lower).
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City Scale
Both maps at the same real-world scale — 1 cm on either map is the same distance.
Bucharest (2.0M) and Ploieşti (187K) are 11x in population — Bucharest is the larger metro, Ploieşti the smaller; on land area Bucharest spans roughly 7.6x more ground.
Bucharest is roughly 9.0x the scale of Ploieşti
Combined population & area comparison
BucharestPloieştiCity Scale Rankings
Bucharest2.0M11xPloieşti187K1xBucharest260 km²7.6xPloieşti34 km²1xBucharest
Ploieşti
Who Thrives Here
Both cities work well for the clean air seeker.
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