VacationSelector

Brasov or Istanbul?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Istanbul
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

BrasovIstanbul
Beaches & swimming. Istanbul leads by 43 points.43
BrasovIstanbul
Score043
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance280 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Istanbul leads by 35 points.35
BrasovIstanbul
Score3570
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2322,086
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1420
Museums & heritage. Istanbul leads by 28 points.28
BrasovIstanbul
Score3866
Museums within 10 km15145
Museums within 2 km of centre1371
Share of museums within 2 km %8749
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Istanbul leads by 49 points.49
BrasovIstanbul
Score3079
Drinking venues within 4 km2232,266
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1691,176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7652
Nightclubs within 4 km14221
Nature & day trips. Brasov leads by 8 points.8
BrasovIstanbul
Score3325
Protected land share 50 km %131
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10048
Park area within 2 km23 hectares60 hectares
Good for families. Istanbul leads by 32 points.32
BrasovIstanbul
Score3567
Tourist attractions within 2 km1268
Park area within 2 km23 hectares60 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Istanbul leads by 44 points.44
BrasovIstanbul
Score3175
Notable places within 2 km23285
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Istanbul leads by 4 points.4
BrasovIstanbul
Score8589
Price level global40.935.2
Daily budget€99€100
Year-round weather. Istanbul leads by 7 points.7
BrasovIstanbul
Score6269
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 27 °C9.2 °C to 29.7 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 97 mm23 mm to 101 mm
Dry months54
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
Istanbul
9
10
12
17
22
27
30
30
26
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Brasov
No coastline within reach
Istanbul
9
8
9
11
16
21
23
24
22
19
15
12
Rainfall, mm
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Istanbul
74
74
66
47
29
29
23
29
43
85
79
101
Daylight, hours per day
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Istanbul
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Brasov
No sunshine record
Istanbul
3
3
5
6
9
10
11
10
7
5
4
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). Istanbul: 1991-2020 normals, Istanbul / Goztepe (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrasovIstanbul
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
3 h 15 m
€141-223
IST · 36 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
2 h 40 m
€142-153
1 stop
IST · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
4 h 15 m
€177-220
IST · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
3 h 15 m
€161-174
IST · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
3 h 35 m
€110-186
IST · 36 km
AntalyaAYT
2 h 0 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
1 h 15 m
€54-87
SAW · 30 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
2 h 50 m
€137-196
IST · 36 km
AthensATH
1 h 35 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
1 h 20 m
€128-154
IST · 36 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
10 h 5 m
€608-794
IST · 36 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

MeasureBrasovIstanbul
Official languageRomanianTurkish
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation600 m100 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsİstanbul Airport (IST)36 km from centre345 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovIstanbul
City population237,58915,655,924
People per km²8902,930
Museums within 10 km872
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3662
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.