VacationSelector

Brasov or Portland?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Portland
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

BrasovPortland
Beaches & swimming. Brasov and Portland are level on 0.
BrasovPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km027
Coast distance280 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 39 points.39
BrasovPortland
Score3574
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2321,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1444
Museums & heritage. Brasov leads by 3 points.3
BrasovPortland
Score3835
Museums within 10 km1523
Museums within 2 km of centre1315
Share of museums within 2 km %8765
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Portland leads by 28 points.28
BrasovPortland
Score3058
Drinking venues within 4 km223942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7655
Nightclubs within 4 km1432
Nature & day trips. Portland leads by 2 points.2
BrasovPortland
Score3335
Protected land share 50 km %1313
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Brasov leads by 1 points.1
BrasovPortland
Score3534
Tourist attractions within 2 km128
Park area within 2 km23 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Portland leads by 4 points.4
BrasovPortland
Score3135
Notable places within 2 km2329
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 42 points.42
BrasovPortland
Score8543
Price level global40.9100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 3 points.3
BrasovPortland
Score6265
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 27 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 97 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months53
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
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
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). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrasovPortland
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 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

MeasureBrasovPortland
Official languageRomanian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation600 m152 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovPortland
City population237,589652,503
People per km²8901,736
Museums within 10 km817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3682

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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. 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.