VacationSelector

Brasov or Chicago?

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.

Chicago
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BrasovChicago
Beaches & swimming. Chicago leads by 53 points.53
BrasovChicago
Score053
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km012
Coast distance280 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 46 points.46
BrasovChicago
Score3581
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2322,147
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1437
Museums & heritage. Chicago leads by 8 points.8
BrasovChicago
Score3846
Museums within 10 km1545
Museums within 2 km of centre1320
Share of museums within 2 km %8744
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 32 points.32
BrasovChicago
Score3062
Drinking venues within 4 km2231,123
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169728
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7665
Nightclubs within 4 km1451
Nature & day trips. Chicago leads by 5 points.5
BrasovChicago
Score3338
Protected land share 50 km %136
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares118 hectares
Good for families. Chicago leads by 20 points.20
BrasovChicago
Score3555
Tourist attractions within 2 km1218
Park area within 2 km23 hectares118 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 39 points.39
BrasovChicago
Score3170
Notable places within 2 km23217
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 42 points.42
BrasovChicago
Score8543
Price level global40.9100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Brasov leads by 5 points.5
BrasovChicago
Score6257
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 27 °C0.2 °C to 29.4 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 97 mm54 mm to 121 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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Sea temperature, °C
Brasov
No coastline within reach
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Daylight, hours per day
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

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). Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrasovChicago
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
2 h 5 m
€201-231
ORD · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 126 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 126 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBrasovChicago
Official languageRomanian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation600 m179 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovChicago
City population237,5892,746,388
People per km²8904,529
Museums within 10 km843
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3687
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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.