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Piața Sfatului, Brasov
BrasovPiața Sfatului
The pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera

Photos: Brasov by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License.

Brasov or Kyoto?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Brasov for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Brasov’s own page.

Choose Kyoto for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Kyoto’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Brasov 6, Kyoto 15: Kyoto leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Brasov 40, Kyoto 85: Kyoto leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Brasov 55, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Brasov 38, Kyoto 35: Brasov leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Brasov 84, Kyoto 70: Brasov leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Brasov 80, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Brasov 58, Kyoto 68: Kyoto leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Brasov 60, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Brasov 32, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Brasov 74, Kyoto 50: Brasov leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Brasov 38, Kyoto 60: Kyoto leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Brasov 32, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Brasov and Kyoto.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Brasov
50match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Brasov in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
81 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Kyoto in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
225 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Brasov has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Kyoto's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Osaka.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Brasov: 2016-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Brasov (3 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrasovKyoto
Official languageRomanianJapanese
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation600 m51 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovKyoto
City population237,5891,463,723
People per km²8901,768
Museums within 10 km877
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.