VacationSelector

Brasov or Cologne?

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.

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

BrasovCologne
Beaches & swimming. Brasov and Cologne are level on 0.
BrasovCologne
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km040
Coast distance280 km256 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 37 points.37
BrasovCologne
Score3572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2321,142
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1435
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 22 points.22
BrasovCologne
Score3860
Museums within 10 km1547
Museums within 2 km of centre1327
Share of museums within 2 km %8757
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 34 points.34
BrasovCologne
Score3064
Drinking venues within 4 km2231,107
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169727
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7666
Nightclubs within 4 km1490
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 38 points.38
BrasovCologne
Score3371
Protected land share 50 km %1353
Landscape blanket share 50 km %052
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares118 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 37 points.37
BrasovCologne
Score3572
Tourist attractions within 2 km1243
Park area within 2 km23 hectares118 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km26
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 22 points.22
BrasovCologne
Score3153
Notable places within 2 km2381
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 25 points.25
BrasovCologne
Score8560
Price level global40.975.9
Daily budget€99€163
Year-round weather. Brasov leads by 2 points.2
BrasovCologne
Score6260
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 27 °C6.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 97 mm48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Daylight, hours per day
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Brasov
No sunshine record
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1

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). Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrasovCologne
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
AntalyaAYT
2 h 0 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
3 h 30 m
€204-239
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 0 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
1 h 20 m
€81-121
CGN · 15 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
MunichMUC
1 h 50 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 126 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
DUS · 41 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

MeasureBrasovCologne
Official languageRomanianGerman
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation600 m59 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovCologne
City population237,5891,024,621
People per km²8902,530
Museums within 10 km840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre3684

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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.