VacationSelector

Brasov or Faro?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BrasovFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
BrasovFaro
Score061
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km013
Coast distance280 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Faro leads by 9 points.9
BrasovFaro
Score3544
Restaurants within 2 km of centre232255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1422
Museums & heritage. Brasov leads by 16 points.16
BrasovFaro
Score3822
Museums within 10 km159
Museums within 2 km of centre138
Share of museums within 2 km %8789
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Brasov leads by 9 points.9
BrasovFaro
Score3021
Drinking venues within 4 km223143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7686
Nightclubs within 4 km148
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 24 points.24
BrasovFaro
Score3357
Protected land share 50 km %1311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km23 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 1 points.1
BrasovFaro
Score3536
Tourist attractions within 2 km1210
Park area within 2 km23 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Brasov leads by 9 points.9
BrasovFaro
Score3122
Notable places within 2 km2314
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 11 points.11
BrasovFaro
Score8574
Price level global40.955.9
Daily budget€99€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 21 points.21
BrasovFaro
Score6283
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 27 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 97 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months56
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Brasov
No coastline within reach
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Brasov
No sunshine record
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

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). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrasovFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 126 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
2 h 40 m
€85-128
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
3 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 30 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureBrasovFaro
Official languageRomanianPortuguese
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation600 m10 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovFaro
City population237,58964,560
People per km²890319
Museums within 10 km82
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3634
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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.