VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Brasov?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Brasov
39
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

AmsterdamBrasov
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamBrasov
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance24 km280 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 48 points.48
AmsterdamBrasov
Score8335
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957232
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4414
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 42 points.42
AmsterdamBrasov
Score8038
Museums within 10 km9815
Museums within 2 km of centre6913
Share of museums within 2 km %7087
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamBrasov
Score7030
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078169
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7076
Nightclubs within 4 km11414
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 27 points.27
AmsterdamBrasov
Score6033
Protected land share 50 km %2113
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 33 points.33
AmsterdamBrasov
Score6835
Tourist attractions within 2 km7412
Park area within 2 km49 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 37 points.37
AmsterdamBrasov
Score6831
Notable places within 2 km19623
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 27 points.27
AmsterdamBrasov
Score5885
Price level global79.240.9
Daily budget€181€99
Year-round weather. Brasov leads by 5 points.5
AmsterdamBrasov
Score5762
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C2 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm23 mm to 97 mm
Dry months05
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Brasov
2
6
11
16
20
25
26
27
22
16
10
4
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Brasov
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Brasov
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Brasov: 2016-2026 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Brasov (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamBrasov
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€106-155
AMS · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 10 m
€202-212
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
€152-186
AMS · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
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

MeasureAmsterdamBrasov
Official languageDutchRomanian
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 number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m600 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamBrasov
City population921,468237,589
People per km²4,208890
Museums within 10 km1018
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre9836
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.