VacationSelector

Brasov or Ghent?

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.

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
match

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

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Scoreboard

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

BrasovGhent
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
BrasovGhent
Score026
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance280 km32 km
Water distance32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 35 points.35
BrasovGhent
Score3570
Restaurants within 2 km of centre232764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1449
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 20 points.20
BrasovGhent
Score3858
Museums within 10 km1524
Museums within 2 km of centre1320
Share of museums within 2 km %8783
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 19 points.19
BrasovGhent
Score3049
Drinking venues within 4 km223570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7678
Nightclubs within 4 km1426
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 1 points.1
BrasovGhent
Score3334
Protected land share 50 km %137
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %10087
Park area within 2 km23 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 15 points.15
BrasovGhent
Score3550
Tourist attractions within 2 km1219
Park area within 2 km23 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 15 points.15
BrasovGhent
Score3146
Notable places within 2 km2355
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 25 points.25
BrasovGhent
Score8560
Price level global40.976.2
Daily budget€99€180
Year-round weather. Brasov leads by 6 points.6
BrasovGhent
Score6256
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 27 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 97 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months51
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Brasov
No coastline within reach
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Brasov
No sunshine record
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
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). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrasovGhent
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
AthensATH
1 h 35 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
3 h 10 m
€118-155
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureBrasovGhent
Official languageRomanianFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation600 m12 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovGhent
City population237,589272,657
People per km²8901,728
Museums within 10 km830
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre3683
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.