VacationSelector

Belfast or Brasov?

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

Your match

Belfast
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BelfastBrasov
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastBrasov
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km100
Coast distance1 km280 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 21 points.21
BelfastBrasov
Score5635
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432232
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3114
Museums & heritage. Brasov leads by 9 points.9
BelfastBrasov
Score2938
Museums within 10 km1815
Museums within 2 km of centre613
Share of museums within 2 km %3387
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 18 points.18
BelfastBrasov
Score4830
Drinking venues within 4 km550223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348169
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6376
Nightclubs within 4 km2914
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 20 points.20
BelfastBrasov
Score5333
Protected land share 50 km %1913
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 13 points.13
BelfastBrasov
Score4835
Tourist attractions within 2 km1612
Park area within 2 km68 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Belfast leads by 11 points.11
BelfastBrasov
Score4231
Notable places within 2 km4323
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 31 points.31
BelfastBrasov
Score5485
Price level global84.940.9
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Brasov leads by 11 points.11
BelfastBrasov
Score5162
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C2 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Brasov
2
6
11
16
20
25
26
27
22
16
10
4
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Brasov
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Brasov
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Brasov: 2016-2026 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Brasov (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastBrasov
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 132 km
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 0 m
€135-197
BFS · 20 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 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

MeasureBelfastBrasov
Official languageEnglishRomanian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Romanian Leu (RON)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m600 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastBrasov
City population345,006237,589
People per km²3,000890
Museums within 10 km88
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4436
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.