VacationSelector

Brasov or Budapest?

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

Your match

Brasov
39
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BrasovBudapest
Beaches & swimming. Brasov and Budapest are level on 0.
BrasovBudapest
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km06
Coast distance280 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 42 points.42
BrasovBudapest
Score3577
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2321,699
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1435
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 26 points.26
BrasovBudapest
Score3864
Museums within 10 km15144
Museums within 2 km of centre1364
Share of museums within 2 km %8744
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 42 points.42
BrasovBudapest
Score3072
Drinking venues within 4 km2231,765
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1691,168
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7666
Nightclubs within 4 km1497
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 7 points.7
BrasovBudapest
Score3340
Protected land share 50 km %138
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares111 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 36 points.36
BrasovBudapest
Score3571
Tourist attractions within 2 km1275
Park area within 2 km23 hectares111 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 38 points.38
BrasovBudapest
Score3169
Notable places within 2 km23206
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 5 points.5
BrasovBudapest
Score8580
Price level global40.948
Daily budget€99€104
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 2 points.2
BrasovBudapest
Score6264
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 27 °C3.6 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 97 mm27 mm to 75 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
Brasov
2
6
11
16
20
25
26
27
22
16
10
4
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Daylight, hours per day
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Brasov
No sunshine record
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Brasov: 2016-2026 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Brasov (3 km from centre). Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrasovBudapest
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 126 km
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 126 km
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBrasovBudapest
Official languageRomanianHungarian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Forint (HUF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation600 m117 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovBudapest
City population237,5891,685,209
People per km²8903,209
Museums within 10 km881
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3686

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.