VacationSelector

Brasov or Cardiff?

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 and year-round weather with your weighting.

Cardiff
✓ Best match
48
match

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

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Scoreboard

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

BrasovCardiff
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
BrasovCardiff
Score046
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance280 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 25 points.25
BrasovCardiff
Score3560
Restaurants within 2 km of centre232541
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1432
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 1 points.1
BrasovCardiff
Score3839
Museums within 10 km1561
Museums within 2 km of centre136
Share of museums within 2 km %8710
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 18 points.18
BrasovCardiff
Score3048
Drinking venues within 4 km223536
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169395
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7674
Nightclubs within 4 km1435
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 17 points.17
BrasovCardiff
Score3350
Protected land share 50 km %1318
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %10068
Park area within 2 km23 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Brasov leads by 3 points.3
BrasovCardiff
Score3532
Tourist attractions within 2 km124
Park area within 2 km23 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 14 points.14
BrasovCardiff
Score3145
Notable places within 2 km2351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 31 points.31
BrasovCardiff
Score8554
Price level global40.984.9
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Brasov leads by 8 points.8
BrasovCardiff
Score6254
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 27 °C7.7 °C to 20.2 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 97 mm49 mm to 87 mm
Dry months50
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Brasov
No coastline within reach
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Rainfall, mm
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Daylight, hours per day
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Brasov
No sunshine record
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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). Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrasovCardiff
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 15 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
3 h 25 m
€95-154
BRS · 34 km
AntalyaAYT
2 h 0 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 30 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 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

MeasureBrasovCardiff
Official languageRomanianEnglish
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation600 m41 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovCardiff
City population237,589383,536
People per km²8902,734
Museums within 10 km89
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3655
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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.