VacationSelector

Alicante or Brasov?

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

Your match

Alicante
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Brasov
39
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

AlicanteBrasov
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteBrasov
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance1 km280 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 31 points.31
AlicanteBrasov
Score6635
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867232
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3114
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 4 points.4
AlicanteBrasov
Score4238
Museums within 10 km1415
Museums within 2 km of centre1113
Share of museums within 2 km %7987
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 21 points.21
AlicanteBrasov
Score5130
Drinking venues within 4 km591223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488169
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8376
Nightclubs within 4 km5414
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 7 points.7
AlicanteBrasov
Score4033
Protected land share 50 km %713
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 7 points.7
AlicanteBrasov
Score4235
Tourist attractions within 2 km1312
Park area within 2 km60 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Brasov leads by 5 points.5
AlicanteBrasov
Score2631
Notable places within 2 km1823
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteBrasov
Score7185
Price level global60.840.9
Daily budget€122€99
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 25 points.25
AlicanteBrasov
Score8762
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C2 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm23 mm to 97 mm
Dry months115
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
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Brasov
2
6
11
16
20
25
26
27
22
16
10
4
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Brasov
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Brasov
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Brasov: 2016-2026 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Brasov (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteBrasov
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 126 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€62-83
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€102-136
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 127 km
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
OTP · 126 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

MeasureAlicanteBrasov
Official languageSpanishRomanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Romanian Leu (RON)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m600 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteBrasov
City population366,221237,589
People per km²1,819890
Museums within 10 km88
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5236
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.