VacationSelector

Brasov or Paphos?

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.

Paphos
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BrasovPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
BrasovPaphos
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km027
Coast distance280 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Paphos leads by 9 points.9
BrasovPaphos
Score3544
Restaurants within 2 km of centre232251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1422
Museums & heritage. Brasov leads by 16 points.16
BrasovPaphos
Score3822
Museums within 10 km158
Museums within 2 km of centre133
Share of museums within 2 km %8738
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Brasov and Paphos are level on 30.
BrasovPaphos
Score3030
Drinking venues within 4 km223224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7672
Nightclubs within 4 km1411
Nature & day trips. Brasov leads by 10 points.10
BrasovPaphos
Score3323
Protected land share 50 km %132
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10033
Park area within 2 km23 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 7 points.7
BrasovPaphos
Score3542
Tourist attractions within 2 km1230
Park area within 2 km23 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Brasov leads by 12 points.12
BrasovPaphos
Score3119
Notable places within 2 km2312
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 15 points.15
BrasovPaphos
Score8570
Price level global40.961.4
Daily budget€99€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 24 points.24
BrasovPaphos
Score6286
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 27 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 97 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months58
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Brasov
No coastline within reach
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10

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). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrasovPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 126 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 20 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
1 h 35 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 15 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBrasovPaphos
Official languageRomanianTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation600 m72 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovPaphos
City population237,58935,961
People per km²8901,987
Museums within 10 km84
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3636
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.