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Town in Ilfov, Romania

Otopeni

Otopeni is a town in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, neighbouring the north of Bucharest along the DN1 road to Ploiești.

Otopeni
Otopeni · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Otopeni is a town in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, neighbouring the north of Bucharest along the DN1 road to Ploiești. It has 21,750 inhabitants, of which 99.0% are ethnic Romanians. One village, Odăile, is administered by the city.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Otopeni

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Zoo Băneasa

    Zoo Băneasa is a zoo in Bucharest, Romania, located in the northern district of the city called Băneasa. The park was founded in 1955 as a service of the Municipal Household Section of the People's Council of the Capital.

    4.5 km · zoo in Romania · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Băneasa Shopping City

    Băneasa Shopping City is a shopping center in the north of Bucharest, Romania, opened on 18 April 2008. Located in the Băneasa neighborhood of Sector 1, it is part of the Băneasa Developments owned by Aurel Gabriel Popoviciu and Radu Timofte.

    5 km · shopping mall in Bucharest, Romania · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Otopeni

Airports
Bucharest Henri Coandă (OTP), 4 km · Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu (BBU), 6 km · Brașov-Ghimbav (GHV), 135 km
Stations
Henri Coandă International Airport, 2.5 km · Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport, 5.8 km
  • Brașov (Ghimbav) → Otopeni
    131 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · lei37–49
  • Craiova → Otopeni
    182 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · lei55–75
  • Constanța → Otopeni
    208 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · lei55–70
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Otopeni

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Otopeni. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt's also possible to reach Mogoşoaia by minibus (the ones heading to Buftea or to Ploieşti via Buftea); they leave several times per hour from an area just east of Gara de Nord train station.
  • Get aroundThe palace is a 600 meters walk from the main road where the buses and minibuses stop.

From Wikivoyage: Mogoșoaia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    434 km
  2. 02
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    488 km
  3. 03
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    509 km
  4. 04
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    717 km
  5. 05
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    739 km

If you know how people move in Otopeni – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Otopeni

Otopeni is 13 km from Sector 6, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.