VacationSelector

Brasov or New York?

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.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BrasovNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
BrasovNew York
Score064
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km017
Coast distance280 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 60 points.60
BrasovNew York
Score3595
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2326,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1438
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 22 points.22
BrasovNew York
Score3860
Museums within 10 km15119
Museums within 2 km of centre1331
Share of museums within 2 km %8726
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. New York leads by 59 points.59
BrasovNew York
Score3089
Drinking venues within 4 km2234,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1692,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7648
Nightclubs within 4 km14192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 6 points.6
BrasovNew York
Score3339
Protected land share 50 km %134
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10069
Park area within 2 km23 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 37 points.37
BrasovNew York
Score3572
Tourist attractions within 2 km1237
Park area within 2 km23 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. New York leads by 43 points.43
BrasovNew York
Score3174
Notable places within 2 km23268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 42 points.42
BrasovNew York
Score8543
Price level global40.9100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Brasov leads by 4 points.4
BrasovNew York
Score6258
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 27 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 97 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Brasov
No coastline within reach
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrasovNew York
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 126 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 126 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 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

MeasureBrasovNew York
Official languageRomanian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation600 m25 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovNew York
City population237,5898,804,190
People per km²8907,256
Museums within 10 km8157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre36132
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.