VacationSelector

Barcelona or Brasov?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

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

Brasov
39
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BarcelonaBrasov
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 65 points.65
BarcelonaBrasov
Score650
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km200
Coast distance2 km280 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 55 points.55
BarcelonaBrasov
Score9035
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786232
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4114
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 30 points.30
BarcelonaBrasov
Score6838
Museums within 10 km10515
Museums within 2 km of centre4913
Share of museums within 2 km %4787
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 52 points.52
BarcelonaBrasov
Score8230
Drinking venues within 4 km2,711223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641169
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6176
Nightclubs within 4 km24514
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 17 points.17
BarcelonaBrasov
Score5033
Protected land share 50 km %1013
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 30 points.30
BarcelonaBrasov
Score6535
Tourist attractions within 2 km6012
Park area within 2 km49 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 42 points.42
BarcelonaBrasov
Score7331
Notable places within 2 km25823
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 14 points.14
BarcelonaBrasov
Score7185
Price level global60.840.9
Daily budget€122€99
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 16 points.16
BarcelonaBrasov
Score7862
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C2 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm23 mm to 97 mm
Dry months55
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Brasov
2
6
11
16
20
25
26
27
22
16
10
4
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Brasov
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
Brasov
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Brasov: 2016-2026 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Brasov (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaBrasov
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€33-92
BCN · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€173-293
BCN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 55 m
€77-116
BCN · 13 km
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 126 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 20 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 126 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 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

MeasureBarcelonaBrasov
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
Elevation9 m600 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaBrasov
City population1,731,649237,589
People per km²17,094890
Museums within 10 km958
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre12836
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.